We’ve had pretty despicable things that the likes of Robert Jenrick have said in the past on his visit to Birmingham.
Bridget Phillipson
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Nigel Farage has spent the summer battling a bin in a desperate attempt to dodge scrutiny but people have a right to know what he’s hiding.
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by number of sources- Next time you see me, I’ll be wearing a T-shirt saying ‘Spiteful Class Warrior’. Because if being a spiteful class warrior means lifting half a million children out of poverty, then I’ll be wearing that T-shirt with pride.2 sources2026theguardian.com
- Nigel Farage cannot dodge them for ever. He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.2 sources2026theguardian.com
I’m profoundly worried about what we’re seeing in terms of misogyny across society.
I worry about our daughters. I worry about the kind of world that they’re growing up into.
I think it is fundamentally racist because I don’t think he would say that about any other group.
Things that not very long ago felt totally unacceptable are becoming normal.
When she had her say, I just kind of said that people would find her out for who she really was.
We were elected with a five-year mandate in 2024, and I see no reason that we would depart from that.
I worry that we are at kind of a ground zero in terms of attitudes around violence against women and girls.
Having public consent for migration and having a system that is fair is absolutely essential.
We’ve seen some pretty shocking failings in terms of the police response over decades and sadly we’re not seeing the progress that we should in terms of how the police will often respond to this.
These are the latest allegations in a mountain of unanswered questions concerning Reform’s donors and finances. Nigel Farage cannot dodge them forever. He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.
Nigel Farage cannot dodge them for ever. He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.
In light of these allegations, I would urge the commission to investigate:
Let’s be clear: this is no victory for Nigel Farage. The mountain of sleaze and scandal he and Reform are now engulfed in has grown and grown while he’s been trying to distract the public by fighting a by-election against a bin.
It’s time to stop the excuses and desperate distractions and finally come clean with the public. If Farage has nothing to hide, he surely would have done so by now.
Farage may succeed in his run-off against a bin, but he can’t run from the truth forever.
Nigel Farage spent 38 days fighting a bin in his most desperate attempt yet to deflect attention from the sleaze and scandals engulfing him and his party.
This is a really troubling situation that we're seeing, both the extremes of heat that we're increasingly seeing in the summer, but also the extremes of cold that we're seeing in the winter.
There’s no hiding place now and Nigel Farage needs to answer to the public as to exactly what’s going on.
Farage has desperately tried to distract from his catalogue of scandals. But the embattled Reform leader has run out of road and must come clean with the public.





