#nigel-farage

#nigel-farage

"You can't go on the sick because you've got mild anxiety. But it is an attitudinal change that Britain needs. "An attitudinal change to hard work, rather than work-life balance. "An attitudinal change to the idea of working from home. "People aren't more productive working at home - it's a load of nonsense. "They're more productive being with other fellow human beings and working as part of a team."

For the first time since the row broke following a Guardian investigation, the Reform UK party leader appeared to indicate some remorse for the impact of his alleged behaviour while at Dulwich college, a private school in south London. I think there are two people who said they were hurt, and if they genuinely were, then that's a pity, and I'm sorry, Farage said in an interview with the BBC. But never, ever did I intend to hurt anybody. Never have.

It comes after a Guardian investigation found more than 30 people who went to Dulwich College with the Reform UK leader have accused him of racist and antisemitic bullying. Farage has denied directly targeting anyone with racist or antisemitic abuse or having the intent to hurt anyone. Earlier this month, he dismissed the allegations as complete made-up fantasies based on political motivation.

Elliptic, a crypto analytics company, said it had traced at least $507m (377m) of cryptocurrency issued by Tether a company touted by the Reform UK leader passing through accounts that appear to be controlled by Iran's central bank. Elliptic's report tracked what it says is the Iranian central bank's systematic accumulation of Tether stablecoins, a type of crypto that is pegged to the dollar so it can easily be exchanged for hard currency.

I'm all for Trump taking out enemies of the West. Maduro, the Iranian regime. But if he falls out with his own allies and leaves America isolated, that, that would be a very bad place to be.

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Essex Police said it could not investigate the Clacton MP because more than a year had passed since the alleged offence. It followed a former member of Farage's campaign team claiming Reform spent more than the 20,660 spending limit set by law. A police spokeswoman said: "Any prosecution for such an offence must commence within one year." She said an "allegation around misreported expenditure by a political candidate" in July 2024 was made on 5 December.

You shouldn't have to pay any inheritance tax, as you've already been taxed on that money. When my grandad died, it was particularly sad because he was too young for my grandma to receive his pension. That's disgusting. Reform has sensible positions on immigration and inheritance tax, so I stand with Nigel Farage.

Twas the fortnight before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Apart from a few exceptions. Labour backbencher Matt Western had managed to secure an urgent question on President Trump's new national security strategy and the Commons itself was remarkable for its absences. A roll-call of dishonour. Take Nigel Farage. You would have thought he would have had a lot to say on the subject.

A lot of people are coming out saying he did say those things. He should just apologise. If he just said: You know, I was a kid, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. It was wrong. People shouldn't speak like that,' this would all have gone away. And that's the problem. It's not that he's racist, that he doesn't care.

Speaking ahead of the meeting, Bardella told the BBC's Nick Robinson he believed the "extremely resilient" Reform UK leader would become the UK's next prime minister. The 30-year-old French MEP is leading in opinion polls to win the first round of the next presidential election due in 2027. A Reform source said the two politicians discussed small boat crossings and energy policy, particularly nuclear energy. Farage has in the past kept his distance from NR, the successor party to the National Front (FN), formerly led by Marine Le Pen.

You can normally set your watches by Reform. It's a rare Monday morning in which Nigel Farage doesn't pop up somewhere in central London to give a press conference. Even when he has nothing new to announce, he usually has no shame in saying something he's said before many times. He likes the attention. Makes him feel valued. Satisfies his rampant narcissism.

A man who has spent much of his recent life in Nigel Farage's shadow. Pushed around. Made to feel worthless. Losing what self-respect he may have had by the day. Before the last election campaign began, Dicky had been the leader of Reform. A party that had been going nowhere very much under his charisma-free control. Dicky would speak and no one would listen.

Peter Ettedgui, a former Jewish classmate of Farage's, told the BBC Farage had repeatedly said to him "Hitler was right" and "gas them" when they had been at Dulwich College together in the 1970s and early 1980s. The BBC has also spoken to two former pupils who backed up Mr Ettedgui's accounts. When previously asked about the comments, Farage has said: