28/03/2025 11:12
The Guardian
Nigel Farage has tried to fend off claims that Reform UK would force people to pay to see a doctorNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, also told Today that the UK should negotiate a wide-ranging trade deal with the US. This should include agriculture, he said. Farage acknowledged that in the past talks on this have been held up by Britain not wanting to allow food imports produced to America’s less rigorous standards, but he claimed the solution was just to give consumers a choice. He said:Now there’s been some concern about chlorine-treated chicken etc, but there is an answer to that which is label things, let consumers decide …I would allow consumers in America to buy our products and consumers here to buy their products, and provided we have the right labelling, that’s good.It looks like Nigel Farage has had the full indoctrination at Mar-a-Lago. No one in this country wants chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves.Farage wants to sell out our hard-working British farmers for a grubby trade deal that wouldn’t protect us from Trump’s damaging tariffs. He’s more interested in being a salesman for Trump than standing up for Britain and our rural communities.I would say it’s quite right to aim for peace, but we can’t have a peace that turns Putin into a winner, so I would not be 100% with where his team is right now.There’s no point looking back. We are where we are now. We want a peace deal. Surely everybody wants a peace deal, but it needs to be equitable. Right at the moment, it appears Russia is getting far too much.At the moment, that’s the way it looks.Now, there may be things going on behind the scenes on the Russian side that we don’t know, but at the moment, that’s the worry. Continue reading...
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