Brexit promoter, Nigel Farage, announced that he is contesting elections in the United Kingdom

British politician Nigel Farage announced this Monday that he will finally run in the general election scheduled for July 4 in the United Kingdom. Despite initially rejecting it, the main promoter of Brexit, which culminated in the country’s separation from the European Union, has decided to launch his candidacy for the post of head of the anti-immigration Reform UK party.

“These elections need to be encouraged,” Farage said today from a yacht club in Dover, in the south of the country, in a program communicating his electoral bets, which he called an “emergency declaration.” The British politician has also assured that, to date, the electoral campaign is “the most dull and boring we have seen in our lives.”

The July 4 election was announced last May by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, following two previous electoral defeats and a loss of more than 20 points in recent polls. Polls suggest the next general election could end the Conservative Party’s 14 years of government.

However, Farage has ultimately joined the confrontation between Sunak’s Conservatives and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party with the same anti-immigration message that already cemented the Brexit victory in 2016.

“It’s funny because the more the leaders of the two biggest parties try to be different, the more they sound like the same thing,” he said, referring to Sunak and Starmer.

Faraz has also argued that he “cannot turn his back on the millions of people who followed me, who believed in me,” he said this Monday. “I have changed my mind because I cannot disappoint millions of people.”

Faraz has also confirmed that he will stand as a parliamentary candidate for the Clacton constituency in Essex. This is the eighth time Faraz has tried to win a seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons and he has failed in all previous attempts.

On 23 May, the promoter of that anti-immigration and Europhobic party assured that he would not present himself as a candidate of that formation in the general elections, although he would “do his part to help” in the electoral campaign.

Farage acknowledged that “there is a rejection of the political class in this country that has not been seen before” and that he had been “astonished” by the number of people who had stopped him in the street last week to ask why he had not attended the election.

The politician has indicated that he will lead Reform UK not only for these elections, but “for the next five years.” Farage has also revealed that he wants to lead a “political rebellion” because “nothing works in this country anymore.”

During a campaign event held by that party in central London, the group’s now-leader, billionaire and former Tory donor Richard Tice, also announced that Farage would take over the leadership of that party.

For his part, Tice, who inherited the leadership of that formation, originally called the Brexit Party, from Farage when he decided to leave the front line of politics in 2021 following the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU), will now become the group’s president.

That party aims to attract Tory voters disillusioned with the current Conservative leadership, particularly on issues such as immigration and the goal of net zero emissions.