Farage launches preemptive attack on Commons standards committee, claiming it won’t judge him fairly – UK politics live
Reform UK leader also tells the Daily Mail he did not anticipate main parties would not stand candidates in Clacton byelection Reform activists urged to switch focus from Manchester to Farage’s Clacton contest The untold story of why Reform figures face NCA scrutiny Reform UK activists have been urged to divert from the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection to support Nigel Farage’s “fake” contest 250 miles away in Clacton, Josh Halliday reports. Nigel Farage ’s difficulties got a lot worse at t
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06.09 EDTFarage launches preemptive attack on Commons standards committee, claiming it won't judge him fairlyIn his Daily Mail interview, Nigel Farage also claimed that the Commons standards committee, which will impose a punishment if Farage is found to have broken Commons rules, was biased against him.He said: double quotation markThere are people on that standards committee who will judge me, who have reported me for Islamophobia. It is going to be a completely subjective judgment. There’s no objectivity in this. According to Christian Calgie, who interviewed Farage for the Mail, Reform UK sources are describing the committee as a “kangaroo court”.Allegations about MPs breaking parliamentary rules are investigated by Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards.
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