National Exhibition Centre

And yeah, that's where I am, why I'm here today chatting to you.

We met at the Birmingham NEC last year, which was a fantastic event for me.

That was kind of where I tested my ideas.

I had already been providing training to training organisations, but it was there that I released my training skills.

Harry has reportedly wanted his father at the opening ceremony of the 2027 games for some time.

The event will be held primarily at Birmingham's National Exhibition Center from July 10th through July 17th, with the opening ceremony scheduled for July 10th.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told the Daily Express, "If other countries followed Uganda in leaving Invictus, this would be serious.

Harry wants King Charles to open the games.

How

about you? What's your toughest moment? arena it wasn't my toughest but it was my most unusual which was just I've got a photo of this as well I found it the other day and I was reminded so I was um manning a stand at um a big education conference up in Birmingham there's this big um a conference center called the the It's called the NEC, the National Exhibition Centre.

Huge, lots of different halls.

And I was there, you know, my background's in education.

Yeah, there, there is a bit of that going on.

And it all was borne out of when I parked it at the Birmingham NEC to go to that Gravity Mo- Modified Car Show with my lad.

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Uh, what else have we got? Uh...

I saw some minds at Birmingham NEC in 1989.

He laid on the stage singing whilst saying he was knackered.

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So we've come to a side room off the main conference because Nigel Farage is about to give a press conference with Jordan Bardella from the National Rally Party in France, who's just, um, addressed the main room to rapturous applause.

I'm at Reform UK's annual conference at the Birmingham NEC.

I've just been in the main hall to witness what should have been the main story of the event, a promise between Farage and the young star of the French Far right to work together to stop the votes.

But things haven't quite gone according to plan.

A very good morning to you, and welcome to the live stream across the Reform UK socials.

We are at the NEC for Reform UK's 2026, uh, conference.

So we've just battled our way through security at Birmingham NEC for the first proper day of Reform's annual conference.

And it has not been an ideal start for the party, to say the least.

It's Wednesday the 2nd of September, and the Birmingham NEC is a flurry of activity.

The Reform UK party conference is less than 24 hours away, and behind the scenes, the transformation of this vast, empty hall is progressing well.

Men in hard hats and high viz are perched high above the venue on telehandlers, fixing lights as the conference stage takes shape below.