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Badenoch accuses Farage of ducking TV interview to avoid questions about £5m ‘gift’

The Independent·Kate Devlin·29 days ago
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Kemi Badenoch has accused the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of ducking a high-profile TV interview on Sunday to avoid questions about his £5m “gift” from a Thai-based billionaire . Mr Farage had been due to appear on the BBC’s flagship political programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg and even appeared in online advertisements for the show as late as Saturday. But as she introduced the programme, Ms Kuenssberg told viewers that Mr Farage was not there, adding: “His team told us, he’s changed his mind”. In response, Conservative and Labour politicians accused the normally not publicity shy Mr Farage of “running scared” of scrutiny over the donation, which was revealed earlier this week and has been referred to Parliament’s standards watchdog. Nigel Farage missed the TV interview (PA) Ms Badenoch said: “Why did Farage run scared from news interviews today? It’s because there’s something fishy about the £5 million he took. And he knows it.…

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