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Nigel Farage clashed with Question Time host Fiona Bruce during a heated leader’s election debate.The presenter and journalist read off a series of offensive remarks made by Reform candidates to the leader during Friday’s programme (28 June).Mr Farage replied: “I don’t know any of them.”The host asked: “Why are you still standing them?”Mr Farage said: “Every party has problems in a snap election.. We paid a vetting company £144,000 to vet our candidates, they didn’t do it”.Ms Bruce replied: “That’s not the question I’m asking. These comments by your candidates have been widely reported. You don’t need a vetting company. Why are they still standing?” More

Nigel Farage claimed he has done more “than anybody else alive” to combat the far right in Britain during the BBC’s Question Time Leaders’ Special on Friday, 28 June.The Reform UK leader faced questions from the audience on footage captured by Channel 4 of racist and homophobic comments made by party canvassers.Mr Farage said: “I’ve done more to drive the far right out of British politics than anybody else alive.“I took on the BNP just over a decade ago. I said to their voters, if this is a protest vote but you don’t support their racist agenda, don’t vote for them, vote for me, destroyed them.”Mr Farage has sought to distance himself from the comments, saying he was “dismayed” by the “appalling sentiments” expressed. More

Labour set up a faux “Rishi’s Mega Mortgages” shopfront on the campaign trail in south London on Friday 28 June.The tagline on the bright blue signage, which includes pictures of prime minister Rishi Sunak’s floating head with a wheeler-dealer style glinting tooth, reads in bright yellow: “Every deal will leave you worse off!”The number “£4,800” was also featured in the biggest font, emblazoned across the front, with one window for each digit.“Here’s my deal of the day. Your mortgage up £4,800”, the shopfront reads underneath.The signage also said “Rishi’s latest raw deals” and “you should be grateful”. More

Nigel Farage said a Reform UK campaigner who made homophobic remarks did so because he’d “watched England play football” and “was drunk.”An undercover Channel 4 reporter’s recording in Clacton showed a canvasser describing the Pride flag as “degenerate” and suggesting members of the LGBT community are paedophiles.“People when they’re drunk often turn quite nasty. It was unforgivably nasty,” the party leader told Loose Women panellists on Friday, 28 June.The Channel 4 footage also captured campaigners using a racial slur and suggesting migrants should be used as “target practice”.Mr Farage has sought to distance himself from the comments, saying he was “dismayed” by the “appalling sentiments” expressed. More

Revelations of “clearly racist” comments by Reform UK canvassers are a “test of leadership” for Nigel Farage, Sir Keir Starmer has said.The Labour leader told BBC Breakfast on Friday 28 June that he was “shocked” by what he heard in the Channel 4 News report.“I was shocked by what I heard in the report, clearly racist, and I think this is a test of leadership,” Sir Keir said.“It’s for a leader to change his or her party, to make sure the culture is right, and the standards are understood by everybody within the party.” More

Nigel Farage has responded to a Channel 4 News undercover investigation within the Reform UK campaign that exposed examples of racist language.An undercover reporter recorded one canvasser calling for migrants crossing the English Channel to be used as “target practice” and another Reform UK activist using a racial slur to describe Rishi Sunak.In a separate video shared by Channel 4 News after the footage was shared, Mr Farage was asked if he would “apologise” to the prime minister.“It was horrible,” he responded.When pressed again, he added: “How much further can I go? Of course it is an apology, it was horrible.” More

Gillian Keegan appeared to suggest a Sky News presenter didn’t “understand economics” during an interview on Friday morning (28 June).The education secretary clashed with Matt Barbet over inflation and whether or not Liz Truss was to blame for the state of the economy in recent months.“There has been a massive jump in inflation under your watch,” Mr Barbet said.“Well, you can thank Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine for that,” Ms Keegan replied, before the presenter pointed out that a lot of people blame Ms Truss.There pair then went back and forth on “understanding economics” and the factors behind high energy prices and inflation. More

A BBCQuestion Time audience member clashed with Yvette Cooper after accusing the politician of failing to give a “yes or no” answer to a viewer’s question about people dying while crossing the English Channel on small boats.The shadow home secretary and fellow panellists were asked if tragedies, such as a seven-year-old girl dying after being suffocated beneath a crush of bodies inside an inflatable boat, were a direct result of not providing safe and legal routes for migrants.As Ms Cooper explained Labour’s position, an audience member interrupted to tell her that she had failed to give a “yes or no” answer.”This is the issue with politics,” the viewer added. More