Nigel Farage rules out election deal with Tories branding them stuffy boring old b******s and claiming Net Zero will be major vote battleground

Nigel Farage ruled out an electoral pact with the Conservatives today as he branded the partys MPs stuffy boring old b******s. 

The Reform leader said he would rather his party replaced the Tories as the home of rightwing voters and questioned counterpart Kemi Badenochs work ethic in a scathing attack.

Speaking at a Westminster event he suggested she doesn’t know what hard work is and mocked other senior figures including Robert Jenrick, who has been among those most open to a pact with Reform.

In a wide-ranging speech to journalists he also said that Net Zero was likely to be a major battleground at the 2029 general election in the same way as Brexit dominated in 2019.

The Tories are struggling to make headway against Reform in the polls under Mrs Badenochs leadership.

In recent weeks there has been talk of the parties doing a deal, either officially or unofficially, to force Labour from power.

Sources close to the Reform UK leader told The Mail on Sunday last month that he would be open to working with the former PM Boris Johnson ‘in the national interest’.

But today Mr Farage said: I have never met a more stuck up, arrogant out of touch group of people, than at least half of the Tory MPs. Stuff, boring old b******s.

And they should all be in the Lib Dems anyway. They don’t have a single conservative idea among them.

The Reform leader said he would rather his party replaced the Tories as the home of rightwing voters and questioned counterpart Kemi Badenoch s work ethic in a scathing attack.

Mocking Mrs Badenoch personally he said she often works very hard in the afternoon for a few hours.

In a wide-ranging speech to journalists he also said that Net Zero was likely to be a major battleground at the 2029 general election in the same way as Brexit dominated in 2019.

Mocking Mrs Badenoch personally he said she often works very hard in the afternoon for a few hours.

And he pocked fun at Mr Jenrick, a former moderate turned right-winger, saying he was a Nigel Farage impersonator to whom he recently offered tips.