Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declared that Britain’s Labour government is in “deep crisis” and predicted it would not last a full term, telling supporters that his party must prepare to take power as early as 2027. Speaking at Reform’s annual conference in Birmingham on Friday, Farage addressed party members just hours after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned, calling it the clearest sign yet of fractures inside Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet.
“This government is deep in crisis,” Farage said. “Not only have they fallen into deep unpopularity within just a year of winning the general election, but it’s become clear to all of us that it is a cabinet of wholly unqualified people to run our country: they are not fit to govern.” He predicted Labour, like the Conservatives before them, would collapse under internal “splits” as the far-left Corbynista faction pushes back.
Farage pointed to Nadine Dorries’ high-profile defection from the Conservatives to Reform as proof that both establishment parties are in “meltdown.” Reform, he said, has grown rapidly—expanding from 30,000 to 240,000 paid members in a year, establishing 450 local branches, taking control of more than a dozen councils, and leading in over 100 recent opinion polls.
Framing Reform as the “patriotic party,” Farage vowed zero tolerance on crime, pledging prosecutions for shoplifting, stop-and-search powers to combat knife crime, and mass deportations of foreign criminals. He reiterated his pledge to withdraw Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and repeal globalist-era laws blocking deportations.
Farage also promised to ban the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, citing its infiltration of Western institutions. He pledged that within two weeks of a Reform victory, “the boats will be stopped” and illegal migrants detained and deported.
“We are the last chance this country has to get back on track,” Farage told cheering supporters. “We will make Britain Great Again.”
