Chair Ellie Reeves says Farage driven by personal ambition as he is expected to label Starmer ‘unpatriotic’ in speech
Bridget Phillipson has said Reform UK are “just not serious people” when asked about the expected announcement from Nigel Farage later today that it would be their policy to make winter fuel payments universal.
She told viewers of Sky News that “I don’t think anybody would seriously believe that millionaires should be getting it.”
On the wider question of Reform, look, they’re just not serious. They’re just not serious people. It’s not credible.
This is a party, after all, that doesn’t believe in the NHS. That would dismantle the NHS as we know it.
Nigel Farage, a private-educated stockbroker and career politician, has only ever cared about his own self-interest and personal ambition, never about what is good for working people in this country.
Farage wants to abolish the NHS, praised Liz Truss’ disastrous mini-budget, opposed Labour’s landmark employment reforms and said Jaguar Land Rover, a huge employer, deserves to go bust.
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Author : Martin Belam
Publish date : 2025-05-27 08:45:00
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