{"id":196844,"date":"2023-12-11T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=196844"},"modified":"2023-12-11T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:19:10","slug":"nigel-farage-hints-at-return-to-tory-party-if-boris-johnson-reaches-out-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/politics\/nigel-farage-hints-at-return-to-tory-party-if-boris-johnson-reaches-out-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage hints at return to Tory party if Boris Johnson reaches out to him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nigel Farage has suggested he would have a conversation about a possible return to the Tory party if Boris Johnson contacted him.<\/p>\n

The former Ukip leader, 59, said there was \u201cnot a cat\u2019s chance in hell\u201d of joining the Conservative Party under Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n

But he admitted he would \u201chave a chat\u201d if Mr Johnson called him.<\/p>\n

Mr Farage, who came third on the ITV reality show I\u2019m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! said the Conservatives were \u201cheaded for electoral catastrophe\u201d and \u201chaven\u2019t got a clue what is about to befall them\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Speaking from Australia after leaving the jungle, he said: \u201cWould I stand for the Conservative Party at the next election? Under this leadership, not a cat\u2019s chance in hell.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould I stand for a party that\u2019s put the tax burden up to the highest level since 1951, whose new legal net migration figures stand at 745,000, which never believed in Brexit but used it purely opportunely to win an election, that locked us down for a third lockdown completely unnecessarily and caused calamitous harm to the mental health of our young, the physical health of our old, and damaged the NHS?\u201d<\/p>\n

He did not say under whose leadership he might be prepared to rejoin the Tories, but added: \u201cI\u2019ve got 6,000 messages. If there is one from Boris I\u2019ll find it in a minute and I might give him a ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know whether Boris has reached out. If Boris has reached out and we really believed that the role of government was to get out of the way and let men and women set up their businesses and create wealth and do well, then I\u2019ll have a chat with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the whole axis of government has moved towards state controls\u2026 but when it comes to politics, never say never.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never, ever wanted in politics to have a job for a title or a rank or a position. I only joined politics all those years ago to make change. Brexit was a fundamental constitutional change \u2013 if I\u2019m going to do it again I would have to believe that I could be the instigator of real change in a country that I think is in some ways almost becoming sclerotic.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I don\u2019t see at the minute how I would do that between now and the next general election.\u201d<\/p>\n