Mr Tice said he would not be bothered if his party opened the door to No 10 for Sir Keir Starmer because the Conservatives had failed Britain.
“I want to reform this great nation, I want to get it back on track,” he said when asked about Tory warnings that a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour.
“The Tories have broken Britain and they need to be punished for what they’ve done for breaking all these promises. Bluntly, they need to be replaced.”
Mr Tice insisted that a vote for Reform was not just a protest, adding that “contrary to what all the commentators say, we are going to win seats”.
“The choice for people is, whether you vote Tory or whether you vote Labour, you will get the same form of socialism,” the Reform leader said.
“You will get higher taxes, lower wages, mass immigration that will make us all worse off and our quality of life will diminish.”
Shown a Tory attack advert, which parodied a Scooby Doo reveal to argue that a vote for him is a vote for Sir Keir, he said: “The more memes the better. It’s all part of it. The fact that they’re focused on us shows just how worried they are.”
‘Ready to save Britain’
Mr Tice, standing in front of his party’s election slogan of “Ready to save Britain” said he would fight the campaign on the issue of immigration.
Accusing the Prime Minister of “bottling” the Rwanda plan, he said Reform UK would effectively implement a net zero approach to migration.
The policy would mean that the number of people arriving could not exceed those emigrating, which typically comes to around 500,000 a year.
He argued that the impact of high levels of immigration on house prices, NHS waiting lists and wages had been “simply unfair for British people”.
Mr Tice announced that he will be standing in Boston and Skegness, moving from Hartlepool which he contested for the Brexit Party back in 2019.
He also insisted that Mr Farage, who has given up his GB News show for the election period, would be hitting the campaign trail on behalf of the party.
“No one loves and is more experienced at campaigns than Nigel. He’ll be in Boston, he’ll be everywhere, you won’t be able to hold him back,” he said.
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