terça-feira, 27 de maio de 2025

Farage: 'no contradiction' in Reform UK being 'the party of workers but also the party of entrepreneurs'

 


12.29 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/may/27/uk-politics-live-labour-reform-nigel-farage-keir-starmer-welfare-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6835ad2e8f08dd3114f2f3e6#block-6835ad2e8f08dd3114f2f3e6

 

Farage: 'no contradiction' in Reform UK being 'the party of workers but also the party of entrepreneurs'

Nigel Farage claims that “the exodus in London and in some other parts of the country is now in full flight.”

 

He says it is “the biggest brain drain we’ve had since the 1970s, and yet no one seems to have woken up to it.”

 

Farage says “there is absolutely no contradiction in saying that we are the party of workers but also the party of entrepreneurs. The two can’t survive and exist and succeed without each other.”

 

12m ago

14.20 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/may/27/uk-politics-live-labour-reform-nigel-farage-keir-starmer-welfare-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6835ad2e8f08dd3114f2f3e6#block-6835ad2e8f08dd3114f2f3e6

 

The day so far

Nigel Farage says prime minister Keir Starmer doesn’t believe in anything, and that “while I don’t bear him any personal grudge, I don’t think there’s any malice in him at all” he did not appear to have a plan for government

 

Farage said it is Reform UK policy to lift the two-child benefit cap, and the removal of a universal winter fuel allowance. He says this is “not because we support a benefits culture, but because we believe for lower paid workers, this actually makes having children just a little bit easier for them. It’s not a silver bullet. It doesn’t solve all of those problems, but it helps them.”

 

Farage also said that the recently announced deal with the EU is “a total sell-out and something that [Keir Starmer] promised he wouldn’t do.”

 

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has said that removing the two-child benefit cap is “not off the table” as she defended Labour’s record on introducing measures to tackle child poverty

 

Labour party chair Ellie Reeves has said that Nigel Farage cares only about his own “own self-interest” ahead of the Reform UK leader giving a speech this morning in which he is expected to call Keir Starmer unpatriotic

 

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride has also been on the media round this morning, and also been attacking Reform UK. Appearing on Times Radio, and with it pointed out to him that the Conservatives were currently fourth in national polling, Stride said “Look, where we are is in a multi-party system at the moment, under first past the post

 

Nearly half of all “red wall” voters disapprove of the way Starmer’s government has dealt with benefits-related policy, a poll has found, as ministers faced continued pressure over winter fuel and disability payments, and the two-child benefit cap

 

More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people have called on the prime minister to abandon “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”

 

The co-leader of the Green party of England and Wales, Adrian Ramsay, has renewed his call for Russia to face greater sanctions. Posting to social media, the MP for Waveney Valley said “Putin has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian civilians because he thinks he’ll face no consequences

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