Nigel Farage will stand for parliament in July’s general election

Nigel Farage has announced that he will stand for parliament in the upcoming general election. The former leader of UKIP has been appointed as the new leader of Reform UK.

And he went on to say he would stand for election in the July poll, despite previously saying he had no plans to do so. He will stay in Clacton, Essex, and formally launch his candidacy tomorrow.

He told a press conference: “I’ve decided I’ve changed my mind. You are allowed to know. It’s not always a sign of weakness, it could be a sign of strength.”

The politician made the announcement minutes after he was named the new leader of the Reform party by the man who currently holds the position.

Richard Tice told a press conference in London: “We have tried to create some interest in this general election campaign. And here we are. Everyone believed that reform in Britain was going to be ripped out, that was the strategy of the Prime Minister and the Tories.”

He added: “What happens to the ballot boxes? Are we going down? do we keep Not. We’re going up. Yes, totally contrary to these plans, we will actually grow.”

“How do we start the rocket boosters, the turbo chargers, in this campaign?” He continued: “As people know, I wanted Nigel to be able to give as much energy and effort, commitment to this campaign as he felt able to do.”

He then said: “I’ve thought it through actually, what I really want to do is invite Nigel Farage to become leader of Reform UK.”

Nigel Farage went on to say at the conference: “We are now putting the announcement on our operations today another emergency headline election announcement. We did this because we think this election needs a bit of preparation. So far, it’s been the most dull and boring election campaign I’ve ever seen.”

He said: “We know taxes will remain high. We know that mass immigration will continue regardless of which party wins power. We know that people will become poorer. We also know that crime or the fear of crime will get worse.”

He added: “We are doing better than our former partners in the European Union, but we are massively behind America and many other parts of the world. We are in social decline and we are actually in a form of moral decline. We have forgotten who we are as a country.”

Announcing that he would be an MP, he said: I will be launching my candidacy tomorrow lunchtime in the Essex seaside town of Clacton, so tomorrow lunchtime Clacton at the end of the pier.”

He added: “Richard is more than happy for me to put my head and shoulders firmly over the parapet and take the flack. So I’m back as leader of Reform UK, but not just for this election campaign. I’ll be back in the next five years.”

He added: “So our aim in this election is to get many millions of votes. And I’m talking a lot more votes than you got in 2015 when we got 4 million votes. We will get many, many, many more votes than that.

“How many seats in Parliament? Can we win in this system? Well, that’s another matter. And that depends on what momentum we can get from here.”

The former UKIP leader said he initially decided he was too short to stand for election, but then changed his mind after talking to people on the streets. He said he felt there was a “rejection” of the country’s political class, then added: “Another thing that kind of shook me last week was the number of people coming up to me in the street saying ‘Nigel, why don’t you stand up?'”

He said he wanted to lead a “political revolt”, telling the conference: “Yes, a revolt. A turning back on the political status quo. Not working. Nothing in this country works anymore.”

Richard Tice will now serve as chairman of Britain’s Reform party, Farage said after taking over from Tice.