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Nina Lloyd

Lords does not need ‘Putin apologists like Farage’, minister says

John Healey said the voice of Reform UK was ‘conspicuously absent’ in debates on Russia (PA) - (PA Wire)

A Cabinet minister has dismissed Nigel Farage’s call for the Prime Minister to allow him to nominate peers to the Lords, saying Parliament will not benefit from more “Putin apologists”.

Defence Secretary John Healey said the Reform UK leader wanted to fill the upper chamber with “his cronies”, and accused his party of being “conspicuously absent” from debate on the Ukraine war.

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