Farage snubs Polanski’s call for leader-to-leader debate

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage has rejected Zack Polanski’s challenge to a face-to-face TV debate as their two parties vie for a victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election.The Reform UK leader said “if you pick a fight with a chimney sweep you get covered in soot”, when asked whether he would take the Green leader up on his offer on Tuesday.

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00:00They're so calm and chill.

00:07Straight your head this way, Zach. Thank you.

00:11And straight here for us.

00:12And secondly, the leader of the Green Party, Zach Polanski, has said today that he wants a leader to leader debate with you.

00:19Are you going to take up on that?

00:20No, I generally find if you pick a fight with a chimney sweep, you get covered in soot.

00:24So I might just leave that alone for the moment.

00:26And that's the nearest to an insult I'll ever come.

00:28All right.

00:30But, you know, he's got a fan club, all the heroin smokers and everything.

00:34He's absolutely marvellous.

00:35I mean, jolly good.

00:36I mean, you know, he's got a fan club, all the heroin smokers and everything.

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