Overview
- Farage, who visited Bedworth on Tuesday, held a press conference at the Sanders/Saunders Club with Siobhan Whyte and then walked the town’s weekly market with local Reform councillor George Finch.
- He chatted with shoppers and stallholders, posed for photos with schoolchildren, ducked into shops including a bookshop, and told a Coventry City fan the team has had an incredible season.
- After the walkabout he said people kept raising money worries, law and order, and immigration, and he argued the UK should quit the European Convention on Human Rights to allow faster detention and deportation.
- He predicted Reform UK would do well in the 7 May Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council elections and described Warwickshire as becoming a party heartland after gains at the county council last year.
- The press event highlighted the murder of hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte, and Farage praised her mother’s remarks while calling the killing unnecessary.