Farage leaves Tory pact open after Badenoch's rejection
The Daily Record's Accrington interview report draws an unusually large audience for a distinction between cooperation before an election and after it.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 49,268 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (3,484).
Nigel Farage WON'T RULE OUT Reform-Tories post-election pact
Kemi Badenoch had rejected the idea of joining forces with Reform UK. Nigel Farage's answer leaves a different possibility open: what the parties might do after voters have had their say.
The Daily Record's “Nigel Farage WON'T RULE OUT Reform-Tories post-election pact” reached roughly 42,000 views in its first 17 hours, well beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for a regular video.
Speaking to the Press Association during a visit to Accrington, Lancashire, on Reform's 100 Days to Save Britain tour, Farage described a pact before the next election as extremely unlikely. He declined to rule out an arrangement afterward. That distinction is the substance of the report, not an announcement that a deal has been agreed.
Badenoch's Conservative conference speech had taken a firmer line against calls to unite the parties. The discussion beneath the Daily Record upload centers on whether cooperation would change people's willingness to vote for Reform, and whether Badenoch would accept it at all. The channel also posted a Robert Jenrick press conference that day, but its Farage report drew the larger audience.
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- Channel
- Daily Record
- Subscribers
- 173,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 702,250
- Channel views, pace per day
- 62,049 (on a normal day: 111,400)
- Video published
- October 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 42,364 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 49,268
The numbers
The Farage report's early views stand well above the Daily Record's usual start for regular videos. Its comment section is also much busier than a typical first day.
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In which English county did Farage give the interview featured in this report?
The report places the interview in Accrington, Lancashire.