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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

Farage compliments Rayner as he looks left to mop up disaffected Labour voters

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage said he was particularly concerned about low birthrates in Britain. Photograph: James Veysey/Shutterstock

Nigel Farage’s Westminster speech was peppered with attacks on Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Rachel Reeves. One person he was nice about, however, was Angela Rayner.

“At least she’s real,” the Reform UK leader said on Tuesday in response to a question about what he thinks of the firebrand deputy prime minister. “None of the rest of them are. I don’t think she’s lying on her CV [an accusation made about Reeves] – I’m not sure she’s got a CV. She is who she is.”

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