WATCH: Nigel Farage blasts Conservatives as 'completely irrelevant'

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Nigel Farage has dismissed the possibility of Boris Johnson returning to lead the Conservative Party as "completely irrelevant" during a speech at a Reform UK press conference.The Reform leader delivered a brutal assessment of Johnson's potential comeback, noting that Johnson might be preoccupied with "some pretty heavy domestic duties" in reference to him becoming a father for the ninth time.READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00And that is the absolutely fundamental shift of public perception that has happened after May the 1st.

00:07Over 40% of people who voted Conservative at the last election actually wanted to vote reform,

00:13but didn't do it because they thought it would be a wasted vote.

00:17And that has been completely and utterly destroyed as an argument.

00:22Now, of course, we have a lot to do now that we're in office

00:24and there is a heavy burden of responsibility on the shoulders of many in this room.

00:30And our Doge unit has now been set up. You'll be hearing much more about that.

00:35We firmly established which flags we will and won't fly from Council Hall,

00:41something that is very popular with the public.

00:43And we are already beginning to discover excessive wastes of money in local government.

00:52But please don't judge us just yet.

00:55Some of these leaders were only sworn in as recently as last Friday.

00:59But we are on our way.

01:02Our membership from June the 3rd last year has gone from 28,000 to over 235,000.

01:12I have absolutely no idea how many members the Conservative Party has,

01:17or indeed how many members the Labour Party has.

01:20The last figure we had was many months ago, and they were losing a member every 10 minutes.

01:26I'm not saying we are already the biggest political party by membership,

01:30but we must be very, very close indeed.

01:33As for the Conservatives, I don't think many in the media class yet really understand the extent to which they are dying as a political party.

01:45It's over.

01:46It is done.

01:48And frankly, after the level of betrayal that we saw, especially since the 2019 victory with the 80-seat majority,

01:57they fully deserve everything that is happening to them.

02:01And as I mentioned already, they cease to be a national party.

02:04They are now an irrelevance in Scotland, an irrelevance in Wales, a complete irrelevance in the Red Wall,

02:12where nobody will ever trust them again.

02:16Now, of course, there's much talk about who the leader of the Conservative Party might be,

02:20and they change leaders pretty regularly.

02:23And maybe Kemi Badenoch's not having a particularly great time.

02:26Now, there is somebody who fancies his chances.

02:28He's been on a Zempick.

02:30He's running marathons.

02:32I noticed a very nice new Savile Row suit the other day.

02:36Perhaps he even had his teeth done.

02:37I don't know.

02:39But it's completely irrelevant whether Robert Jennerick becomes leader of the Conservative Party

02:44or Kemi Badenoch stays on as party leader.

02:47It's completely irrelevant if Boris Johnson decided,

02:50although he's got some pretty heavy domestic duties by the looks of it,

02:53whether he decides to return.

02:55They will not be trusted again.

02:57They have no chance of winning the next general election.

03:01None whatsoever.

03:03And I don't really wish to spend much more time talking about them.

03:08They did sink to fourth in the opinion polls with YouGov last year.

03:13It is over.

03:14It is done.

03:15They've had a good 200 years.

03:16It is now finished.

03:18It is now finished.

03:24It's finished.

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