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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Farage sacks Reform housing spokesman over ‘everyone dies’ Grenfell remark

Seventy-two people died in the tower block fire (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

Nigel Farage has sacked Simon Dudley as Reform UK’s housing spokesman after mounting anger over his comment that the Grenfell Tower fire was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”.

Reform leader Mr Farage said Mr Dudley is “no longer a spokesman” for the party after his “deeply inappropriate” words at a central London press conference on Thursday.

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