Sunday shows round-up: Farage insists racism row canvasser an ‘actor’

Nigel Farage: racism row canvasser is an ‘actor’

It’s been a tricky few days for Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage after one of his party’s canvassers was caught using a racial slur against the Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak hit back at the Reform man’s words, saying it ‘hurts and it makes me angry’. Yet today, Farage insisted that he was not linked to controversial members, saying to Sky’s Trevor Phillips that in this case he ‘knows it is’ a set up, calling the member in question an ‘actor’. He went on:

If you want to support us, why not come as the person you really are. Why come using your false acting voice?

I fought harder than anyone to drive the BNP out as an electoral force… When I ran UKIP, when I set the Brexit party up, I didn’t allow anyone to even be a member if they were party of any of those groups.

Farage would remove anti-discrimination laws

Reform leader Nigel Farage left Sky’s Trevor Phillips stunned this morning after saying that he would remove anti-discimination legislation if he were in power.