Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live

Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendum

Farage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failure of capitalism.

Some will tell you, well, the economy is failing because capitalism is failing.

No, we're not living in capitalism. We're living in an age of global corporatism.

The other great betrayal is that is every one of these millions of businesses, every one of these 5.6 million businesses, believed that, with Brexit, the regulatory burden on their shoulders would become less.

I can tell you, a decade on, almost from the referendum, in every single industry, from financial services to fisheries, the burden of regulation and the threat of the regulator is worse now than it was then.