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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

‘So what?’: Farage dismisses Reform candidate’s misogyny as ‘a few laddish things on social media’

Nigel Farage has defended misogynistic comments made by his Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon as “the sort of thing you'll hear in every pub in the country every evening” just days ahead of the crunch vote.

Mr Kenyon, who is standing against Labour’s Andy Burnham in next week’s contest, used a now-deleted X account to support an offensive post about Welsh broadcaster Carol Vorderman.

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