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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

As Badenoch saw sense, it was just Farage playing politics over a young man’s death

Nigel Farage standing up from the benches at PMQs
Nige had been allocated a question as the leader of Reform UK. And he didn’t want to waste it when there was a tragedy to exploit. Photograph: House of Commons/AFP/Getty Images

There was a rare sighting in Westminster on Wednesday. The lesser-spotted Farage. A species so elusive that not even David Attenborough has previously recorded him in the wild. Nige blinked several times, trying to get used to his unnatural surroundings.

He looked sunbaked. His time on the run ever since the Guardian revealed his previously undisclosed £5m handout from a crypto-billionaire in Thailand has clearly been spent mainly outdoors. Sleeping under the sun, moving by night under the stars. Anything to keep one step ahead of journalists asking awkward questions. One twitcher thought he had maybe caught sight of him on the Costa del Crime.

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