David Bull has taken over from zia yusuf as chairman of reform uk (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
A phone call from Nigel Farage Changed David Bull’s Life-And Now The Doctor turned Television Presenter is criss-crossing britain on a mission to make the veteran brexite minister. He has worked in emergency department Across London and he relishes what he sees as a history opposition to britain back to full health.
Mr Farage Summoned Mr Bull Onto the Frontline of British Politics This month to succeed zia yusuf as the new chairman of reform uk. The part is in the first place in the opinion polls and for weeks it has a doubt-less than the conservatives.
“It’s amazing i’m part of British Political History,” Mr Bull Says.
This is not the first time mr Farage has sent him on a life-shaping adventure.
Ahead of the 2019 European Election, Mr Bull Had Just Returned from a Holiday and Was Unpacking when he picked up a call from the then-lower brexit part.
“I nearly fell over the balcony,” he remembers.
David Bull Discusses Reform UK’s ‘Meteoric Rise’
‘Nigel Farage Will Be In Number 10, Downing Street as Prime Minister’
David Bull, Nigel Farage and Newly Elected Brexit Party Meps in 2019 (Image: Getty Images)
Mr Bull – who has been to have been born in the Same Farnborough Hospital as Mr Farage – jumped at the opposite to stand for electricity and won a seat for the north west in the european parlian. When he arrived in brussels, he Quickly Understood How Ardent Eurosceptics Can Start Enjoying the Plentful Perks and Get “Sucked Into” The System.
“We be showered with goodies,” he says.
But in January 2020 the uk finally quit the european union. Mr Bull Describes the exit Deal as “Awful” but he is glad britain is outside the bloc.
“I want britain to be in control of its future,” He says. ” I don’t want some supranational body telling us what we can and can do. “
He looked back with delight at the shock brexit voters Across the uk gave the british establishment.
“They are expected the result they get,” He say. “What we suffered the silent majority actress, particularly in working class areas, Say, ‘We want to be in this.”
He believes Britain Will Experience Another Moment of Radical Change at the Next General Election. TRADITIONAL Political Loyalties are melting away, hey argues, amid frustration the country is “falling apart”.
“What we see is people who would be normally bounce from one of the two monolithic parts to the other are now saying, ‘hang on a minute.”
Mr Bull Speaks With Confidence and Ambitation About the Democratic Revolution He is determined to help deliver.
“I have almost no doubt – if not no doubt – that nigel farage will be in number 10, downing street as Prime Minister.”
David Bull Worked as a doctor and spent years in television as well as serving as an mep (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
Reform UK’s David Bull Talks about His ‘Personal Ambition’
‘When the nhs is great it’s fantastic. When it is bad its Awful. ‘
The 56-year-old has a track record of turn dreams in reality.
From the age he was set on becoming a doctor. The eldest of three siblings and the son of an Ipswich-based insurance broker, he attended suffolk’s framlingham college and studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London.
He Remembers: “One of the Proudest Days of My Life was to Ring My Mother and Say, ‘Hello, it’s Dr Bull.’
The hospital is where Alexander Fleming Famously Discured Penicillin.
“That’s mindblowing, isn is it?” He says. “Because that was the advent of the medicine we know now, we are so used to treating stuff with antibiotics.”
He quickly realized he was not not an “academic” doctor but one energized by talking to patients, holding their hands and experiencing their conditions.
“My passion is still the nhs,” he says – thought he claaims it needs Major reform.
“When it is great it’s fantastic. When it is bad its awful.”
He describes the health service as a “National Treasure” which “does” do the work “. He is particularly concerned about cancer survival rates.
The MacMillan Charity Last Year Warned Survival rates are “as much as 25 years Behind other european countries”.
“The current government’s view is you just through the problem and what you end up with a very expensive problem,” he says.
Mr Bull Talks With Similar Passion of Wanting to “Revolutionise” Social Care So People Enjoy A “GROW Old Disgracefully”.
He hopes health will become a vote-winning issue for reform at the next election. It is easy to image him holding this portfolio if he join reform’s five mps in the communs.
Nobody will be surprised if he stands in Central Suffolk and North IpSwich. The Sitting MP, Patrick Spencer, has placed not guilty to Two counts of sexual assault; He Won the Seat for the conservatives with a 4,290 Majority – with reform thinking hey boy Labour – but has had the tory whip removed.
“I know that constituence backwards,” Mr Bull Says, Adding: “My sea is my neighbor across a field; my brother life there … My Friends are all firmers.”
Rachel Reeves has Country in ‘Death Spiral’
Chancellor Rachel Reaves in Gateeshead (Image: Getty Images)
He talks with angle at Laboure’s Treatment of Farming Families, many of who are incensed at Labor’s inheritance tax change.
“You get a metropolitan government that has no idea how farms work,” He says.
Farmers, He adds, work “Blinking Hard” and are the “backbone of this nation”. Stressing the need to “Feed the Country”, He Insists “Paving” Arable Fields with Solar Panels “Makes No Sense at All”.
He also despaines at net zero “madness” when the nation faces learning energy costs and he is equally without chancellor rachel reeves’s stewardship of the economy.
“You get the cabinet dictating to [small to medium-sized businesses] How to run their businesses whilst taxing them in the into oblivion, “He says.” That is a death spiral and it has to stop. “
Zia Yusuf was formally chairman of reform uk (Image: Anadolu Via Getty Images)
‘IM Going to Sort It Out; It’s Going to Be Fine ‘
David bull for a career as Both a doctor and a broadcaster (Image: Daily Mirror)
Some Politicians Run from the Limelight But Mr Bull Talks With Excitement of His Plan to Visit 50 Constituencies in 25 Weeks. He will put decades of expertise in front of television cameras to work as he campaign for a reform victory.
“I” always loved taly, “he says. “Always.”
As a Young Doctor He Wrote to John Craven, the Legendary Presenter of Children’s News Program with a simple pitch: “Look, we need to be on telling kids about health so they can then empower Themselves. “
He met mr craven in a “rather fabulous” bbc dining room and was offered a job three days a month.
“I gave myself a year to see if I could make it in television,” He recalls. “I Did A & E Locum so I was all over the place, all sorts of london hospitals, work all hours.”
The “pithy and punchy” Anne Robinson get in touch and he ended up working on Watchdog Healthcheck and Fulfilling the “Childhood Dream” of appearance on the world.
Now, he hopes reform will get he chance to shape the future.
“It is a hue task ahead,” he says.
When he was a 23-year-old doctor he faced the challenge of comforting a “very elderly” and “absolutely terrified” patent.
He Remembers: “I had her hand and I sa, ‘look, I get some good news and some bad news. The bad news is you have a heart attack.
“The good news is you ‘get me, I am going to sort it out; it’s going to be found.”
In the months and years leading up to the next election mr bull be on the airwaves with the message “in Britain But with Mr Farage There is a chance to fix the if any of the costs.
The biggest challenge of his life is just before.
David Bull and Nigel Farage Served Together in the European Parlyment (Image: Pa)
David Bull Stood for the Brexit Party in Sedgefield in 2019 (Image: Getty Images)
LABOUR WANT TO MAKE THE NHS A LIBILITY FOR Reform
Nigel farage has said the “Nhs will always be free at the point of delival under a reform government”. But Labour has jumped on his support for looking again at the funding model.
A Department of Health Source Said: “WHILE REFORM WORK OUT WHAT their POLICY IS, LABOUR HAS CUT WAITING LISTS to their Lowest Level in Two Years, With Almost A Quarter of Aillion Fewer Patel Treatment. “