'Nigel Farage can sod off' says Home Secretary

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told ITV News she makes "no apology" for her sweeping reforms of the asylum system. When Robert Peston told the home secretary that Nigel Farage said she appeared to be auditioning to join Reform, Mahmood replied: "He can frankly sod off. I'm not interested in anything that he has to say." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Nigel Farage can keep his opinions to himself. He can frankly sod off. I'm not interested in anything that he has to say.

00:07And let me just say to people of all political persuasions who are watching, I'm not making a political calculation here.

00:15I'm not making an election calculation here. It is my responsibility as the Home Secretary of this country who can see a broken system

00:22to work out how to fix that broken system and to work out what is the right thing to do

00:26and then to go out there and make the argument for why these changes are the right thing to do for the right reasons

00:33because they will fix the problems that people genuinely see and genuinely are occurring

00:37and in doing so to retain support for having an asylum system at all.

00:42Everything else, that's politics. That's downstream of all of the main choices that I'm making.

00:47My responsibility is to deliver a system that the whole of the country can have faith in.

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