Farage on whether Kanye West should be banned from entering the UK over antisemitic comments:
“I wouldn’t buy a ticket… his comments are vile… but I think if we start banning people from entering the country because we don’t like what they say I worry where that ends up… it’s a dangerous path to go down.”
The latest update to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests is out. See who has the deepest pockets…
Nigel Farage trousered £42,549 from his Cameo video recordings, which must have upset the Guardian. His attempted trip to the Chagos islands – Farage registered it as a “humanitarian aid mission” – cost £25,000, courtesy of Reform donor Christopher Harborne. His £9,466 trip to Mar-a-Lago was picked up by US lobby group Club for Growth…
Angela Rayner banked £19,000 for a single speaking engagement paid by the Management Consultancies Association. There is still a grand total of £0 registered for her book deal advance. She did, however, accept £50,000 from Refrigeration House Limited and £2,500 from Trevor Chinn. Rayner described both donations as “staffing costs“. Quite a sum for a backbencher…
Kemi Badenoch accepted £7,549 in hospitality from Tory donor Neil Record. Five nights for herself and four family members at his private residence over half-term…
Rupert Lowe earned £5,803 from X for an estimated five hours of posting. Farage registered £524 and Lee Anderson £329 from the platform in the same period…
Oliver Dowden took £15,000 from hedge fund Caxton Associates for 30 hours of ‘strategy advice.’
And finally, Starmer registered another trip to the Arsenal Directors’ Box. Two tickets to the tune of £1,000, obviously. As always, nice work if you can get it…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”
Nigel Farage has claimed he wrote privately to Keir Starmer in September, offering to help the government strengthen ties with the Trump White House. In the New Statesman today he says he told Starmer:
“I know a lot of this administration, I am on text exchanges with cabinet members [and] if you need my help in any way at all, I will do it. I will do it under the radar. Nobody will ever know.”
They know now…
Of course, Starmer didn’t reply. The (former) Trump Whisperer preferred to go it alone…
Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have told the Sun they’d scrap £13.5 billion in net zero spending to reverse Reeves’ hike to fuel duty due September:
“Reform would cut £13.5billion in bonkers green schemes. And we’d use that money to do what Reeves should but won’t — cut your bills. That starts with scrapping this crazed plan to increase petrol taxes at the worst possible moment.
If Reform was in Government, it would never have happened. We will spend the next few months trying to shame Rachel Reeves into cancelling it. But if she doesn’t — whether because she’s running scared of the Greens or in hock to her far-left backbenchers — then Reform will reverse it in our first Budget.”
The pair will host a press conference at 10am. Reeves herself is up in the Commons at 11.15am. Stay tuned…
Nigel Farage revealed at Guido’s exclusive Save Chagos boat party last night that he is flying to Florida today for dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Starmer’s surrender deal is on the menu…
“We think this is the central plan for this Government’s foreign policy and we are beating them back… President Trump has almost understood the deal, but I will be dining at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night and we will reinforce the message… We have got to keep fighting, we have got to keep the pressure up, we must not let our foot off this pedal, but for first time in this battle… this feels more than winnable.”
Farage making it clear that the work must continue to finally kill the deal. Save Chagos!
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Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”