Badenoch attacks Farage over £5m gift and rules out Tory-Reform pact
Key takeaways
- Kemi Badenoch said Reform ‘dress like Thatcherites but act like Corbynites’.
- Prefer the Guardian on Google Kemi Badenoch has attacked Nigel Farage over the £5m gift he received before the general election as she ruled out an electoral pact with Reform UK.
- The Tory leader questioned Farage’s acceptance of the gift from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in the months before he stood to become an MP in 2024.
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Kemi Badenoch said Reform ‘dress like Thatcherites but act like Corbynites’. Photograph: Murdo Mac Leod/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Kemi Badenoch said Reform ‘dress like Thatcherites but act like Corbynites’. Photograph: Murdo Mac Leod/The Guardian Kemi Badenoch Badenoch attacks Farage over £5m gift and rules out Tory-Reform pact Conservative leader says Reform UK’s poor showing in this week’s byelections leaves idea of deal ‘stone-dead’
Prefer the Guardian on Google Kemi Badenoch has attacked Nigel Farage over the £5m gift he received before the general election as she ruled out an electoral pact with Reform UK.
The Tory leader questioned Farage’s acceptance of the gift from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in the months before he stood to become an MP in 2024.