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Nigel Farage has hit out at Angela Rayner at the Reform Party conference after she quit as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary.
The MP for Clacton-on-Sea said her decision to resign over her tax affairs ‘screams to entitlement’.
‘It screams to a government that despite all the promises that this would be a new, different kind of politics is as bad – if not worse – than the one that went before,’ he said on stage at the Birmingham NEC.
He added Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet was full of ‘wholly unqualified people’ and joked about Rayner being ‘an accomplished property developer and speculator’.
Farage was originally lined up to speak just after 4pm today, but said he pulled his speech forward after Rayner’s resignation because the Government is ‘deep in crisis’ and ‘not fit to govern’.
But Metro understands this wasn’t widely advertised to attendees of the conference, meaning people were spotted leaving the main hall just moments before Farage took to the stage.
Empty seats were also seen as he began talking. However, some people began to return to the hall after he started his speech.
Farage also said there was a ‘big rift’ in the Labour party and he thinks a general election could take place in 2027.
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‘We’re used to hearing stories of splits in the Conservative Party. We’re about to witness a big rift in the Labour Party, too,” he told party members in a keynote speech in Birmingham.
He added: ‘Before long, there’ll be Labour MPs that reckon they’ve got a better chance on the Jeremy Corbyn sectarian ticket … they’ve got a better chance of being re-elected under that ticket, under Corbyn, than they do under Sir Keir.’
He went on: ‘I think there is every chance now of a general election happening in 2027.’
The next election is scheduled to take place no later than August 2029. Labour has not indicated an election will be called earlier.
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