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Election campaign day 38: Farage at centre of media storm

Source: PA Wire

Nigel Farage has been picking fights with Channel 4 and the BBC, while Labour and the Tories sought to land some blows on him.

– Farage against the machine

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is involved in high-profile spats with two major broadcasters.

The Reform leader said he is refusing to appear on the BBC’s flagship politics show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg unless the broadcaster apologises for the “rigged” audience he was confronted with on Friday night’s Question Time.

The BBC said the audience was made up of “broadly similar levels of representation from Reform UK and the Green Party” – Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay was the other guest – “with other parties represented too”, along

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