REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage has said he intends to run for Prime Minister in 2029 and wants to build a “mass movement” for political change before then.
Asked about his appearance on the BBC’s Question Time, he told Camilla Tminey on GB News: “Right from the start of this campaign the BBC have behaved like a political actor.
“I remember the first interview I did on the Today programme, I came off air and thought, ‘there's no point.' There's literally no point and no opportunity to talk about policy, about ideas. But what happened on Friday, with that Question time audience was truly astonishing.
“First question gets asked by a chap who has himself produced eight programmes for the BBC, including the very woke now Doctor Who, right? So he gets to ask a question…[the]third question is asked by a chap, as a well known street Palestinian campaigning activist.
“I think question number seven or eight was asked by a girl who's a very active left wing campaigner, which is perhaps fine. But the point I'm making is that a Question Time audience is supposed to be representative of the country. As we go into the final week of a General Election, it was miles from that and I did ask the BBC for an apology.
“I mean, I'm all for free and fair debate, goodness gracious me. But I've now done a series of big BBC programmes over the last few weeks, and every single audience has been tilted towards either the Green or the Labour in the most astonishing way.”
Asked about the Channel 4 News report on comments made by an activist, he said: “Channel 4 will stay as far away from it as possible. Of course, Channel 4 use production companies, that gives Channel 4 deniability.
“Let's just get the facts. This chap bowls up, right. Big, larger than life, a really big strong and almost slightly comedic accent and that's how he is. He hangs around the office. He hangs around with two people who I didn't understand at the time were working for Channel Four,
“They were together. He then says, I've got a big car, canvassing team come with me, a couple of our activists get in the back with Channel Four in the front, and from the minute he got in the car apparently, he was saying all sorts of things about people of different colours and sexualities and trying to gee-up the the Reform activists who didn't play.
“Then we get to the canvassing spot and he comes out with this stream of invective against Rishi Sunak. He says that all the mosques should be turned into Weatherspoons and I looked at this and thought it doesn't quite ring true.
“They came back, one of the leaders that was with him when she came back said, ‘look, I'm really alarmed at some of the behaviour that I've just seen, anyway…I didn't find out till the next morning, because I wasn't there.
“The next morning I found out he was an actor, right?. Go to his website. He speaks, he's very posh. Yes, not quite Jacob Rees-Mogg, but he's very, very posh and yet he has this alter ego, where he does what he calls ‘rough speaking’.
“He even posts on Tik Tok. He's a modern day Alf Garnett type. The stuff on Tik Tok is - the language is horrendous. Why, if you're a genuine reform canvasser, why would you turn up in the office using your alter ego voice and not your real voice?
“He’s worked for Channel 4 in the past, he’s done acting roles in the past. He seemed to know the Channel 4 infiltrators very well, and by sheer coincidence, on a day when there were 100 canvassers, they were all together in the same car.
"The morning after this all came out. He was rung by us and the Telegraph. He denied that he was an actor. He lied then. I've seen lots of this in the past. This is the biggest smear stitch-up I have ever seen. We will get to the bottom of this.”
