"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."
"The health secretary, Wes Streeting, criticised him for allowing anti-vax lies to flourish within Reform. Nigel Farage is a snake-oil salesman of British politics, and it's time to stop buying what he's selling, he said. Nor is it just Labour. The former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Wigtown book festival that Farage was selling snake oil. It seems the vintage US term is back in the political lexicon."
Labour figures labelled Nigel Farage a snake-oil salesman, with Keir Starmer presenting Labour as an alternative to what he called the division and decline under Farage. Darren Jones compared Farage to the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate. Health secretary Wes Streeting accused Farage of allowing anti-vax lies to flourish within Reform, saying it was time to stop buying what he was selling. Nicola Sturgeon also called Farage a snake-oil seller. The term originated in the late 19th century to describe fraudulent peddlers of remedies, exemplified by Clark Stanley, whose rattlesnake remedy contained mineral oil, beef fat, chilli extract and turpentine.
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