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Nigel Farage clashed with Richard Madeley over his loyalty to Donald Trump after the former president peddled a conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, and God “spared his life” from two failed assassination attempts.“Whenever Donald Trump makes a comment that is ridiculed, it always turns out to be true,” the Reform UK MP said on Good Morning Britain on Thursday, 19 September.Farage told Madeley: “Your line of attacking those who believe that there are sometimes divine interventions that actually, there are people out there that believe in God, and believe that sometimes they get spared… I find that line of yours very cynical.” More

Nigel Farage believes there is some truth in Donald Trump’s claim that Haitian migrants are eating pets in Ohio.The former US president made the claim during a live ABC debate with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month.The Reform MP said he believes there is some truth to Trump’s comments.Appearing on LBC on Thursday (19 September), Mr Farage said: “Whenever he says something like this that is absoluley crackers in the end there is always some truth in it.“I’ll have a tenner with you that within the next month we find some evidence of it.” More

Diane Abbott has opened up on her bizarre date with Jeremy Corbyn and finding love at 70.The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington spoke about how Mr Corbyn took her to see Karl Marx’s tomb in Highgate Cemetery, during an interview on ITV’s Lorraine show on Wednesday (18 September).She explained how the romance “fizzled away”, adding: “There is no bad feeling. Jeremy is not like that and we are still friends.”Ms Abbott also revealed she is open to dating again at the age of 70. She said: “I believe Prince Charming is around the corner.” More

Business minister Jonathon Reynolds defended his party after it was revealed Sue Gray earns more than the Prime Minister. The Labour Party was branded “embarrassing” and of showing “stunning arrogance”, as Mr Reynolds was grilled about Ms Gray’s salary during an interview with Kay Burley on Sky News today (19 September).“Explain to me the stunning arrogance of a member of staff who thinks they should earn more than the boss,” Ms Burley said.Mr Reynolds said: “This is clearly an important job.”Ms Burley challenged the minister again, asking why Ms Gray reportedly earns £170,000 a year, compared to Keir Starmer’s £100,000. More

Kemi Badenoch has claimed she grew up in a middle-class family but “became working class” after getting a job at McDonald’s aged 16.The Tory MP, who is currently in the race to become the party’s next leader, made the comments during an appearance on Chopper’s Political Podcast with Christopher Hope.“I grew up in a middle-class family, but I became working class when I was 16 working in McDonald’s,” Ms Badenoch said.Her claim soon went viral on social media, and has drawn criticism, including from Labour MP Chris Bryant.“I’m not sure that’s how it works,” he wrote, responding to the clip. More

Sir Ed Davey’s speech at the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton on Tuesday, 17 September, touched on the need to fix Britain’s broken relationship with Europe – but the party leader did not go as far as many of the party’s Europhile activists would like.Sir Ed called for measures such as a return to the single market and a free movement scheme for young people but stopped short of promising to campaign to reverse Brexit, as his predecessor did in the 2019 election.Here, The Independent political correspondent Archie Mitchell delivers his analysis of Sir Ed’s keynote speech. More

Sir Ed Davey belted out Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” to close out the Liberal Democrats conference in Brighton on Tuesday, 17 September.The party leader, all 72 Lib Dem MPs, and the crowd were on their feet singing and clapping along to the hit as confetti poured down from the ceiling.Sir Ed used his conference speech to urge Sir Keir Starmer to “make this year the last winter crisis in our NHS”.His party also announced it would campaign for a new Winterproof NHS Taskforce, which would manage a £1.5bn budget to build resilience across hospital wards, accident and emergency departments, ambulance services and patient discharging. More

Diane Abbott has accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating her like a “non-person” during a race row over comments made by a major Tory donor.In March, The Guardian reported that Frank Hester had told colleagues that looking at Ms Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women”.Ms Abbott, a veteran Labour MP, said she expected more support from the prime minister and her party, having been left feeling in danger by Frank Hester’s comments.She went on to claim that Sir Keir “never reached out to me personally and did treat me as a non-person”. More