After his predecessor, Liz Truss, indicated she would be happy to collaborate with him to “turn our country around,” Rishi Sunak, in a contentious Prime Minister’s Questions, declined to say if he would permit the Brexit campaigner and TV host to join the Conservatives.
However, in a post on X, Mr. Farage claimed that Sir Keir was launching a “extraordinary attack” on him. He wrote, “He must have forgotten that millions of Labour voters agree with me (rather than him) on stopping mass migration and our increasingly unrecognisable cities.”
Calling attention to the party’s recent troubles in the Rochdale by-election—where it was forced to withdraw support for its candidate after it revealed he made antisemitic remarks—Mr. Sunak accused the Labour leader of merely “sniping from the sidelines.”
“We expel antisemites, he makes them Labour candidates,” he stated.
Following Ms Truss’s description of Mr. Farage as the “man to restore the Tory party,” Sir Keir pressed Mr. Sunak to clarify whether Mr. Farage would be joining the Conservatives during PMQs.
