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Reform Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf press conference; ENGLAND: London: INT Nigel Farage MP (Reform UK leader) and Zia Yusuf (Chairman of Reform UK) press conference SOT SOT NIGEL FARAGE Where we are particularly agrieved is in Norfolk where we did win to see the Great Yarmouth. Even on the first part of the post, we still run the secret Great Yarmouth.In the general election and in Essex.Where James McMurdoch and I both managed to win seats in Parliament, where we came second in five of the constituencies and where the opinion polls now put us as favourites to win Essex County Council voters in Essex and Norfolk and Sussex and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and Thurrock and Southwark and Norwich. They will be denied the opportunity to vote on May the 1st.The elections are cancelled. Now I thought that only dictators cancelled elections, but now this is the connivance of a now terrified Labour Party and boy, didn't we see that today at Prime Ministers question and I've been shouting down from all sides. It was almost like old days in the European Parliament. I was thoroughly enjoying myself. And Conservative LED councils who of course wanna keep their money rolling for at least another couple of years. How long the cancellations last, whether it's one year or two years or more, we don't know. What we do know is that the reorganisation of local government is going to take up to three years to complete and given the return for a county councillor is 4 years, there is absolutely no justification for cancelling the elections of five and a half million people other than the cabinets of the existing political class. And that's what we launched, our petition, on this, which nearly quarter of a million people have signed already, we are a little bit angry. This is wrong. The political weather has changed in local government over what caused the last four years and people deserve to have a say. So we'll fight hard and campaign in the areas that are still happeni...