{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/4bee4cf8-df50-445a-9c80-bc573f030fde/6a9ad70af8f4d42589e56d73?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Reform Party Conference Special Part 1: Is Farage Ready to Govern?","description":"<p>Reform Conference Special: Can Farage really deliver? Peter Cardwell hosts. Reform UK is gathering for its conference amid fresh controversy over claims the party breached foreign donor rules, with aides standing down as questions mount over its finances and internal discipline.</p><p><br></p><p>Alex Deane, political commentator, examines the latest Reform scandal and the growing questions around the party’s funding, as Nigel Farage prepares to make the case that Reform is ready for government.</p><p><br></p><p>Farage is expected to promise to declare a national emergency on his first day as Prime Minister, sack ministers who fail to deliver and stop the boats within 100 days. We examine whether Reform’s plans to tackle illegal immigration, slash benefits and cut taxes are actually achievable.</p><p><br></p><p>Duncan Barkes, Talk presenter and host of Prick With a Fork, joins us from the Reform conference to bring us the atmosphere, arguments and personalities on the ground.</p><p><br></p><p>Alex Phillips, Talk presenter, also joins us for our Reform Conference Special Part 1, ahead of the second part of the conference coverage on the show that follows.</p><p><br></p><p>Is Reform genuinely ready to govern, or are the latest funding allegations exposing a party that still has serious growing pains?</p><p><br></p><p>Reform UK, Reform conference, Nigel Farage, Reform scandal, foreign donations, foreign funding, political donations, funding rules, national emergency, stop the boats, immigration, benefits, tax cuts, Reform government and British politics.</p>","author_name":"Talk"}