4 worrying takeaways from Nigel Farage’s plans backing torture, locking up kids and paying despotic regimes
Sections of the right-wing press seem completely relaxed about Farage’s plans to strip away constraints on state power
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Victoria Derbyshire grills Richard Tice over claim ECHR withdrawal won’t ‘unravel’ the Good Friday Agreement
“That doesn’t make sense”
Richard Tice confirms Reform UK is open to migrant deportation deal with Taliban
“Is it moral?”
Reform councillor resigns amid serious racism allegations
Robert Bloom allegedly shouted appalling racial slurs at his neighbours and threatened them
Nigel Farage’s vow to scrap Human Rights Act leads to stark warnings about how it would undermine all of our rights
“The Human Rights Act protects everyone. Including you. He wrecked your economy with brexit, don’t let him wreck your freedoms with this.”
Nigel Farage dodges questions on returning asylum seekers who could be tortured or killed
Farage didn’t seem too concerned about potential human rights abuses
Nigel Farage set to skip Parliament’s return in favour of cosying up to Trump’s allies in Washington DC
Farage has faced criticism from his constituents too for going missing since being elected the MP for Clacton,
Reform councillor works on asylum claims for Home Office, an investigation has revealed
He may have breached civil service impartiality rules
Richard Holden’s attack on Angela Rayner spectacularly backfires
“Ultimately, she’s done nothing wrong, has she? This is an absolute row about nothing. Do you think she’s guilty of any wrongdoing?”
Courts would block Nigel Farage’s mass deportation plan, former attorney general says
Dominic Grieve has said Farage’s draconian plans would likely be struck down by the courts