Hundreds of people queued in the blistering heat to listen to Nigel Farage as he continued his campaign trail.
The new leader of Reform UK is visiting Maidstone today (June 24) in his next election stop.
People queued on the grass opposite the Mercure Great Danes Hotel, in Hollingbourne, ahead of his arrival.
Water was being offered to those waiting in the heat as they sat looking at a Reform UK-branded bus.
One couple from Hoo said: “We cannot wait to see him. We met him when he visited our local pub in Hoo.
“We have been leafleting for him and the reaction has been really good.”
The Reform candidate Paul Thomas addressed the crowd first before Mr Farage appeared walked through the crowd to the bus.
The former UKIP leader revealed earlier this year he was undecided whether he would take his eighth punt at trying to become an MP.
He even ruled it out completely in May as he said he was going to dedicate his time to the US election.
However, the staunch Brexiteer made a dramatic U-turn earlier this month by announcing he would be contesting the Clacton seat in Essex.
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The veteran politician launched Reform’s campaign in Dover at the end of May with a backdrop of Union Flags and slogans promising to save Britain.
Farage unsuccessfully contested the South Thanet seat in the 2005 and 2015 general elections.
Recently, he criticised Boris Johnson, after the former prime minister accused him of writing “nauseating ahistorical drivel” about Ukraine.
Farage said on the BBC’s The Panorama Interviews Friday programme that “we provoked this war”, in reference to countries in eastern Europe signing up to Nato and the European Union, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Writing in the Telegraph on Saturday, he urged readers not to “blame” him for “telling the truth about Putin’s war”.
The other candidates running for Maidstone and Malling are Helen Grant (Con), Maureen Cleator (Labour), Dave Naghi (Lib Dem), Styar
Stuart Jeffery
Paul Thomas
Gary Butler
Yolande Ann Kenward
