Cleverly: Criticise Farage over policy, not alleged comments

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Conservative frontbencher Sir James Cleverly says he won’t criticise Reform UK Leader, Nigel Farage, for claims he made racist remarks as a schoolboy as it is “much more reasonable to criticise him for what he has said as an adult” on his party's policies and the war in Ukraine. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm not going to criticise Nigel Farage for what he may have said when he was a teenager

00:05at school.

00:06I think it's much more reasonable to criticise him for what he said as an adult.

00:12And I think the promises that he's making to the British people, that somehow they can

00:17have all these wonders and not actually have to pay the bill, I think is deeply irresponsible.

00:23He wants to spend a whole load of public money but is claiming that he can cut tax, which

00:28is deeply, deeply dishonest.

00:30He's basically done victim blaming when it comes to Ukraine and suggesting the West provokes

00:37Russia into invading Ukraine, all these things, completely inappropriate and he's failed to

00:42get a grip of people within his own party, people like Nathan Gill who's taking bribes

00:47from Moscow.

00:48So I'm less worried about what Nigel Farage may have said as a teenager, I think he should

00:53be held account for what he said as an adult.

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