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Lammy Effortlessly Demolishes Farage’s Claim To Be Anti-Establishment With Brutal Putdown

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David Lammy tore into Nigel Farage during deputy prime minister’s questions on Wednesday over the Reform UK leader’s decision to trigger a by-election.

The Clacton MP dramatically declared that he was resigning, only to run again in a “people versus establishment” contest in his constituency yesterday.

The announcement came as Farage faces a growing list of questions about his finances.

He is currently under investigation by the parliamentary standards commissioner for failing to declare a £5 million “gift” he received from a crypto-billionaire shortly before he ran for parliament in 2024.

Farage could face further probes for not declaring his entire property portfolio to parliament or for the support he quietly took from “posh” George Cottrell.

It recently emerged the convicted criminal offered Farage funding for staff, security and the use of his London townhouse before he became an MP.

Farage has denied any wrongdoing and claims to be the victim of an “establishment stitch-up”.

But, in the Commons on Wednesday, Lammy – who was representing the government while Keir Starmer is away at the Nato summit in Turkey – questioned Farage’s claim of being a man of the people.

Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper kicked off the conversation by asking Lammy if Farage’s resignation should be delayed until after the probe into his undeclared gifts.

She joked: “The honorable member for Clacton used to say leave means leave, but it seems his latest stunt is to leave this place so he can return as a fully-fledged member, after not just one referendum on his behaviour, Mr Speaker, but possibly two.”

The deputy PM replied: “Everyone can see that the Reform leader is just trying to distract from the fact that he is up to his neck in sleaze.

“He’s got serious questions to answer and he can’t run away from them.

“Labour isn’t going to be part of this circus.

“I hear it’s the people versus the establishment – the city trader, Putin-admiring, professional politician who is pals with crypto billionaires versus Count Binface.”

All other political parties have decided not to run a candidate against Farage in Clacton, leaving only comedy candidate Count Binface to compete against the Reform leader.

That triggered yet more laughter in the Commons, to which Lammy said: “There have been unqualified joke candidates in the past. Let’s see what the people of Clacton decide.”

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Is This ‘The Coldest Summer Of The Rest Of Our Lives’?

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The part of the UK I’m in is about to experience about a week’s worth of 30°C+ weather, meaning we’re in for yet another official heatwave.

This comes after March temperatures so high that they broke not one, but two records, and the hottest UK June day we’ve ever noted. Schools closed during the last heatwave; wildfires raged; trains were cancelled, and buses caught on fire.

All this is taking place while an El Niño intensifies. It’s part of a decades-long warming trend that seems to be getting worse, not better.

So is it right to say, as I’ve heard expressed in various online spaces and various publications, that this is “the coldest summer for the rest of our lives”?

The sentence rightly points to the indisputable fact that global warming is going to get more dangerous if we don’t intervene. Heatwaves have already become more likely and more extreme.

But climate is different from weather – on a summer-by-summer basis, are we going to experience conditions worse than these every year? And what does it mean if we don’t?

We asked climate experts to share their thoughts.

“This is definitely the ‘least extreme weather’ we will experience”

Speaking to HuffPost UK, Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, MBE, the director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) and a Professor of Environmental Psychology at the University of Bath, said 2026 will probably pale in comparison to future weather events.

“I would say this is definitely the ‘least extreme weather’ we will experience,” Prof Whitmarsh told us.

“This is how Prof Hayley Fowler puts it, who is an expert in climate impacts.”

The professor was referring to 2025′s National Emergency Briefing by Professor of Climate Change Impacts at Newcastle University, Prof Hayley Fowler.

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Still, Prof Whitmarsh added, “there’s no guarantee every year will see a hotter summer than the one before, but the general trend is certainly hotter over time”.

″‘This is the coldest year for the rest of our lives’ is very unlikely to be true”

HuffPost UK also spoke to climatologist Prof Friederike Otto, a Professor in Climate Science at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and the leader of World Weather Attribution (WWA).

She told us, “I think [the idea that] ‘this is the coldest year for the rest of our lives’ is very unlikely to be true, but what is certain is that unless we stop burning fossil fuels extremely rapidly and global mean temperatures are stabilised around 1.5°C, this is one of the cooler summers for the rest of our lives.”

While there may be cooler summers, and even colder overall years, ahead, in the bigger picture, 2026′s endless heatwaves might go down as a regular – even moderate – example of a “new normal”.

This is especially true if we do not urgently address climate change.

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