'They won't exist!' Nigel Farage predicts Tory destruction as Reform rules out 'Unite the Right' deal

He said: “You're all obsessed with this. This is the Westminster obsession.”

Pushed further on a potential coalition deal in 2029, Farage added: “The Tories won't exist by the time of the next election.

“I mean, what you're going to see from the 2021 vote is a lot of old Conservative voters come to us and a chunk go to the Lib Dems as well.

“I don’t honestly, and I know they've been here since 1832, but I don't believe they'll be an electoral force at the next election.”

Asked if a national deal remains on the table, the Clacton MP told the People’s Channel: “Absolutely not.”

Nowcast, which aggregates polling and extrapolates the findings onto the 650 existing constituencies, currently puts Reform UK on 201 seats, up 196 compared to the 2024 General Election.

Support for Labour has slumped significantly, with 222 losses reducing Sir Keir Starmer’s rump to just 189.

Despite succeeding Rishi Sunak after the Conservatives' worst electoral performance since 1906, Badenoch appears to be facing an almighty struggle to turn Tory fortunes around.

The Tories would likely suffer another wave of losses if polls opened today, with Nowcast suggesting just 98 Conservative MPs would return to the House of Commons today.

While Reform UK would benefit from the Tories' continued fall, Sir Ed Davey’s Liberal Democrats would also receive a healthy six seat boost.

Despite categorically ruling out a national “Unite the Right” arrangement, Farage stopped short of dismissing speculation about local alliances with Tories across county halls contesting elections tomorrow.

“Look, we’ll do a deal with independents or whoever,” the Reform UK leader said.

“All I can say is, if we do a deal with anybody, we would demand very tough terms.

“And those tough terms would be, as I've said already, big cuts in spending, cuts in staffing and cuts in terms of the areas that council involves itself in.

“And if other parties are prepared to go in with us on that basis, then, yes, we'd be grown ups.”

Badenoch and Farage have been at loggerheads since the pair were involved in their Boxing Day bust-up over Reform UK’s burgeoning membership figures.

The Tory leader accused Reform of fiddling its numbers but soon found herself on Farage’s target list after journalists verified the populist party’s claims.

Farage also appears scarred by his discussions with top Tories ahead of the 2019 General Election.

The Clacton MP, who stood down 317 Brexit Party candidates, alleged that Boris Johnson’s allies put forward an offer to prevent Jeremy Corbyn entering No10.

Farage said: “It was bribery. It was corruption on the most extraordinary level. And those that know me when this offer was made said they’d never heard me shout so loudly. I was that angry at total corruption.”

Speaking to GB News last October, Johnson rejected the allegations.

The former Prime Minister said: “I didn’t do any deal.”

During Farage’s sit-down interview with GB News, the Brexit supremo also appeared to concede Reform has lessons to learn from the Liberal Democrats.

“There are many, many things the Lib Dems do that we need to model our party on,” Farage conceded.

He added: “They're very, very good at delivering leaflets, knocking on doors. And boy, we've come a long way since the General Election, but we're not yet where the Lib Dems are.”