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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Ben Quinn

Farage said Andrew Tate was ‘important voice’ for men in podcast interview

Farage speaking into microphone
Farage praised Tate for defending ‘male culture’ in a podcast episode that aired in February. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

Nigel Farage has praised the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the “emasculated” and giving boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school” in online interviews that appear to be aimed at young men over the past year.

The Reform UK leader spoke in favour of Tate for defending “male culture” in a Strike It Big podcast that aired in February, while acknowledging that the influencer had gone “over the top” and elsewhere that he had said some “pretty horrible” things.

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