If you have a spare 3 mins and 45 secs today, watch this fantastic grilling by Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast.
The very first time I've seen Farage questioned properly about his £5M bung, and it's fair to say, he totally fluffed it.
There are points when you can see Farage tremble and even accuse the BBC of putting him in danger. 🤦♂️
It was for security. It was for cars. Nobody cares. It's no one's business. He won't tell us. DANGER!
At one point, he let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards may 'disagree' with him on the rules around donations.
He knows he's going to be found guilty on this one. He's in trouble, and his face gave it away gloriously.
Top hats off to Sally Nugent. Stellar work. 👏
Sally Nugent just did something almost nobody in British broadcast media has managed. She actually pressed Farage on the £5m from Christopher Harborne, and didn't let him wriggle off it.
His answers shifted as they went. It was for security. Then it was for cars. Then it was nobody's business. Then he questioned why it mattered at all. When Nugent kept pushing on how much he'd actually spent, he accused the BBC of putting him in danger by asking.
At one point he tried turning it back on her, asking what she does with her own salary. She didn't blink. "My salary is on the public record." His isn't, not the £5m anyway.
Then the line that mattered. He let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards "may disagree" with him on the donation rules. That's not a denial. That's a man who knows which way this is going.
Farage has prior form here. The Commissioner already found he breached the rules once, failing to register 17 payments worth around £384,000 within the required 28 days. No action was taken that time, it was called an error. A second breach, on a £5m personal gift, is a different category of problem.
Three minutes and forty five seconds of someone actually doing the job. Worth the watch.
Squirming Farage knows this is now a scandal that could end his chances of being PM.
Everyone, including his own supporters, knows his failure to declare a secret £5m bung from a Thailand-based crypto tycoon absolutely STINKS.
Farage on #BBCBreakfast: “If Andy Burnham becomes PM we need a General Election, no mandate!”
Sally Nugent: “Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?”
Watch the chancer’s face as his own logic gets rammed straight back down his throat. Pure gold.
This is the exact line every interviewer should use on him from now on.😂😂😂
RT if Sally Nugent deserves a medal 👇👇👇👇
Auntie Diane chewed up Keir Starmer & left no crumbs 👏🏾 I love this for her😂 The look on Starmer and Lammy's faces - they weren't enjoying it one bit!
I have written to the Prime Minister about Labour’s betrayal of the WASPI women, who expected change from them.
The women did not expect the same dishonourable, despicable, and detestable behaviour from Labour as they did under the Tories, but that’s what they got.
Labour lied!
@RachelReevesMP But you take it back in tax if we have a little private pension ! So that will be depleted ! Raise the tax threshold then it may help pensioners
@TorstenBell Not cheerful for the 50's born woman, who you keep trying to ignore, or treat with disdain, well we will spoil your day, we are NOT going away. Until we receive compensation for maladministration from the DWP
@TorstenBell You say waiting lists have fallen ! 40 weeks wait for me to see a consultant cardiologist!More Labour lies and no understanding of what life is like for people now