Sky News interview with Beth Rigby in Scotland: local election hopes, council tax promises and NHS funding

Official title

Nigel Farage sits down with Beth Rigby | Extended - YouTube

Speaker

Nigel Farage (Leader of Reform UK and MP for Clacton)

Date delivered

14 Apr 2026

Where

Publisher

YouTube: Sky News (official channel)

Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlyOknFC9xM

Retrieved

2026-10-09T14:11:47+00:00

SHA-256 of raw file

eaecfcf9b05d33d8f44a767cdc53d45e094f8e7c19da069a42d47b1589675375

Licence

Standard YouTube licence; transcript from captions, quoted for review

Note on record

Transcript from the video's captions, fetched on 2026-10-09; not an official record. Captions do not say who is speaking: Polifiles assigned each turn by reading the captions, without checking the audio. Sky News' upload of the extended interview recorded in Scotland before a Reform UK rally, three weeks before the May elections (6 minutes), from the first question to his last answer; her closing "Okay. I accept that." is left out. The captions run the two voices together for much of the interview and cut the start of many lines, so turns are assigned by meaning rather than by the '>>' marks, and some boundaries are uncertain. Short interjections are given to Beth Rigby (for example "Mhm.", "Yes.", "Sorry. I know we've got", "I've got I've got the transcript here.", "I'm really really really sorry. said it doesn't work. It's not working.", "want to look at insurance models potentially.") and others to Nigel Farage (for example "Take it in the round.", "Thank you.", "It's exactly.", "It's never been my"). Her reading of his answer from the previous year ("I do not want it funded through general taxation...") is part of her question. Trimmed: starts at "Nigel, thanks for speaking to us today."; ends at "I've got more to do.".

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