Nigel Farage regularly travels during parliamentary sittings to return refreshed for a sustained summer recess presence in Westminster. He has led weekly press conferences, often on Mondays, with announcements on migration and crime previewed in weekend papers and extended live appearances on news channels. Those events have produced debates, backlash, multiple defections including a police and crime commissioner and an MSP, and extensive front-page coverage. Farage speaks off-script, dismisses hard questions, and gives long answers containing half-truths and pet theories. He invites questions from all journalists and launched a plan for mass deportations while brushing aside practical scrutiny.
The Reform UK leader has been at the helm of five press conferences, one every week of recess, and has just managed two more in the final week. Most of them have been on Mondays, with announcements on migration and crime trailed into the weekend papers and his live appearances on news channels sometimes lasting longer than an hour. Those Monday conferences have prompted debates and backlash which run for days.
Farage speaks off-script, dismissing the questions he cannot answer, but taking dozens. Unlike a government press conference, he luxuriates in the time he has available, with long rambling answers which contain a multitude of half-truths and pet theories that could be turned into news stories. And some would say even commendably he takes questions from every journalist present, even magazine writers and podcasters who have sometimes seemed caught off guard by having their name called by Farage from the podium
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