#nigel-farage

#nigel-farage

Nigel Farage has again denied the allegations of racism as a schoolboy and repeated his claim that some had been concocted because people disliked his politics. During a press conference, he snapped at one reporter who asked about the issue, saying: I think we've gone quite a long way towards answering all this, don't you? Farage, who prides himself on answering numerous questions at press conferences, took 10 this time, but did not include any from the Guardian.

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It is a grey morning in Shadwell, east London. But inside the old shell of Tobacco Dock, the gloom gives way to pulsating neon lights, flashy cars and cryptocurrency chatter. Evangelists for Web3, a vision for the next era of the internet, have descended on the old trading dock to network for two days. For many, the main event is one man: Nigel Farage.

Labour Party Chair Anna Turley accused Farage of "panicking and desperately trying to backtrack" on his views about Putin. Turley said Farage "can't help himself" and was "still peddling the Russian line on their illegal invasion of Ukraine being the fault of the West," in the interview with Bloomberg's Mishal Hussein. "Putin doesn't have to pay Nigel Farage to spout Russian talking points - he does it for free."

Nigel Farage has been urged to explain why a US anti-abortion advocacy group helped arrange a meeting in London with Trump administration officials and diplomats. The meeting, first reported by the New York Times, took place in March between Farage and a delegation from Trump's state department, which it said was overseen by the US embassy and brokered by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) group. The meeting was said to have discussed abortion rights, free speech and online safety laws. ADF, which supports free speech and religious freedom, has worked in Britain to help challenge the prosecutions of Christians who were arrested for praying silently outside abortion clinics, breaching buffer zones.

"Liberal Democrats will stand firmly behind Bank of England independence, just as we have stood against recent attacks on the independence of our judiciary. "Trump's threats to sack governors of the Fed if they don't do what he wants are causing economic panic in the United States," Sir Ed said. "That is the last thing we need here at home - we cannot let Trump's America become Farage's Britain."

Could it be that, like most narcissists, Nigel Farage is actually a bit thin-skinned? Surely not! Not our fearless Nige! The man who is never happier than when he can cast himself as the outsider a lone voice speaking truth to power. When he can control the narrative. A saviour rising from these streets. The politician who only knows he's alive when the cameras are rolling.

It is an association Labour seems particularly keen to conjure in relation to the leader of Reform UK. Speaking at the party's conference in Liverpool, Keir Starmer said Labour offered an alternative to the division and decline under the snake-oil merchant Nigel Farage. The prime minister's chief secretary, Darren Jones, also described Farage as a snake-oil salesman, comparing him with the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate.

If I said to you that Swans were being eaten in royal parks and carps were being taken out of ponds and eaten in this country from people with different cultures. Would you agree that is happening?

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Nigel Farage has insisted he has no "financial stake" in a house bought by his partner in his Clacton constituency. The Reform UK leader said the money used to purchase the property was "legally hers", adding: "She bought the house, the deeds are in her name, council tax is in her name." It comes after a BBC investigation raised questions over how Farage's partner, Laure Ferrari, could afford to buy the 885,000 home in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, without a mortgage.

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