PROPERTY tycoon Nick Candy has said he will raise over £40 million for Reform UK to ensure that it wins the next general election and Nigel Farage becomes Prime Minister.

His comments came after it was announced that Candy, previously a backer of the Conservatives, would take up the position of Treasurer for Reform UK next month.

Speaking to GB News, Candy said:

The country is in decline and the Labour government has “been a disaster”.
“You can’t tax your way out of this problem. You have to grow the economy.”
He can raise over £40 million for Reform UK.
Candy said he has received pledges worth millions from potential donors today.
He is confident that Reform will have more members than the Conservatives within six months.
He said Boris Johnson’s wife contacted him because the former PM wanted to speak to Elon Musk.

He said: “I love our country. I think our country is amazing, but our country is in decline.

“I’ve got friends across the political spectrum. I’ve got some very good friends in the Labour Party. I’ve got some very good friends in the Tory party. They will always be my friends. But I genuinely believe it’s time for a change of direction, and that change of direction is Reform and Nigel Farage.

“I voted for Tony Blair when he came to the election, I voted for Boris and David Cameron and the guys there. I didn’t vote for Labour in this year’s election.

“I said Keir Starmer is a good guy with good values and that it was time for change, after some 13 years of promises that were made that weren’t delivered on. I thought it was time for change.

“However, the last four or five months under Labour has been a disaster, for them as well. They know it. We know it. The country knows it. And I believe that Reform and Nigel are the future, and I’m going to back them because we have one last chance of this.

“I’ve got two young daughters here in the country. I would like them to grow up here, but they don’t need to grow up here. I have a choice, okay? And when my grandma came here to the UK, and she came from Cyprus, many, many years ago, she’s not with us anymore.

“She was a waitress up in Neasden, and I look at what’s happening today and she would have to be on the NHS wait list for two, three years. It’s just a disaster. The country is in decline.”

Speaking to Christopher Hope, he said: “Labour have got it so wrong already. You can’t tax your way out of this problem. You have to grow the economy.

“I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, but what I can do is I’m very good at raising money…for businesses. I’m very good at helping the operations of businesses, and I will make sure that Reform UK has the right funds to run their operations and businesses correctly.”

Asked how much he could raise for Reform, he said: “I think for past general elections, sort of £25 million to £40 million has been raised for previous parties, and I think I will do significantly better than that, more than £40 million.

“Already this morning, I’ve had millions of pounds worth of donations from people that have never donated to a political party in this country. But it’s not just about getting rich donors and billionaire people or whatever, or millionaire people.

“Today, we need the guys that have got one pound, £5, £10, £25, to be a member of Reform. Reform has 100,000 members now. The Tories have 130,000 members. I’m sure in the next six months Reform will go past the Tory membership and that will be a game changer in this country.

“Once they start winning some of these local elections and these by-elections, it’s going to be a complete game changer. My only job is raising the funds to do it properly.”

He added: “I started with £6,000 pounds in 1995 with my brother. My grandma lent us that money. That’s what she could afford.

“So, for all the people out there that are upset with the state of the country and where it’s going – you’ve got to have hope. And if you don’t have hope then you’ve got nothing.

“You have to be aspirational to do better and I believe that Nigel is the right guy to do that for this country. I’ve seen it first-hand.

“He started as a dear friend, a close, close friend, and he’s still a dear friend. My kids call him Uncle Nigel. I’ve got other friends in the Labour Party and the Tories and those relations will stay.”

On donations for Reform, he said: “This morning, already on my phone, we have millions of pounds of donations from friends.

“Pledges…they said, ‘listen, I will give you £250,000, I’ll give you £500,000, I’ll give you a million pounds. Can you come and see me? Can Nigel come and see me? Can we speak?

“But we’re not just after these huge donations. We need the person that I was, the guy on the street, that [wants] to become a member of party and pay the £25 membership donation. We need all of that.

“We’re not just going for these large cheques. We want to make sure, from the ground up, we’ve got huge donations. And Gen Z love Nigel, and the amount of money that he has the ability to raise from them – they relate to him.”

On reports that Elon Musk wants to donate to Reform, Candy said: “I’ve never met him personally, but I have a very dear friend that is close with him.

“And actually, when Boris wanted to speak to Elon about two months ago, Boris, his wife, messaged me and said, ‘do you think you could put him in contact with Elon?’ And I did that via my friend.

“So, there will be a chance to speak with Elon and if he would want to donate, of course, we’d love him to donate. If it can be done properly and legally and through the right mechanisms, then absolutely fine, but it’s not all about just one guy. It’s not all about Nick Candy.

“This is about changing this country for the better. My only job here is, I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician. I helped raise funds for the Tory party. I’m now helping Reform to do it.

“I think we will break records with that, not because I’m so great at doing it, I believe people want that change.”