During an immigration special, one member of the crowd took issue with the anti-immigration party’s claim that there are enough people in the UK to “not need foreign doctors”.
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The man in the audience said: “I joined the NHS as a student in 1974. We’ve been totally reliant on doctors from Asia initially, and the care sector is totally dependent on care workers from abroad, despite nine million people not being in work.”
He said population growth and a shortage of funds for hospitals has gone down, telling Yusuf: “So you’re conflating lots of different things to make your argument.”
He pointed out that Reform has promised migrant workers will lose their indefinite leave to remain if they get into government.
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“So if you’ve worked as a care worker in nursing home for 40 years, you are already since last year not allowed to bring your children over,” the man said.
“When you get to 65, you’ll be sent back to where you came from, is that what you’re suggesting?”
Yusuf said: “No. It’s not at all. And if you’d paid attention to what we are announcing, you would not have that view.”
A surprised “ooh” went around the hall at that response, but Yusuf continued: “My mother is a care home worker –”
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Migration minister Mike Tapp then chimed in: “Typically rude. Be polite to people at the same time. They’re not decent, that’s the problem.”
Yusuf ignored the response to his tone and said Reform have announced they will have an “acute skills shortage visa specifically for sectors like the care home sector”.
The Reform representative also hit out at the show later, criticising the BBC for supposedly “planting” small boat migrants in the audience.
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Yusuf told GB News: “How on earth it should be deemed appropriate that people who have broken into this country illegally should have a seat at the table in a discussion about illegal immigration… it is bewildering.”
Nigel Farage called for an apology from the BBC during a furious outburst at a press conference today.
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BBC Radio 4′s Today co-host Emma Barnett also clashed with Reform deputy, Richard Tice, over what she called Farage’s “relationship” with Adolf Hitler on Thursday morning.
Responding to that interview, and the ongoing racism allegations, Farage told a BBC reporter: “I thought this morning’s performance by one of your lower-grade presenters [Emma Barnett] on the Today programme was utterly disgraceful.
“I think, to frame a question around the leader of Reform’s ‘relationship’ with Hitler, which is how she framed it, was despicable, disgusting beyond belief.
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“Are you surprised that half a million people every year refuse to pay the licence fee?”
He continued: “The double standards and hypocrisy of the BBC are absolutely astonishing. The time I was alleged to have made these remarks, one of your most popular weekly shows was the ’Black and White Ministrel [Show].’”
He said: “I cannot put up with the double standards of the BBC about what I’m alleged to have said 49 years ago, and what you were putting out on mainstream content.
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“So I want an apology from the BBC for virtually everything you did throughout the 1970s and 80s.”
He also claimed he had received many letters from former school peers from his time at Dulwich College, and read one out during the press conference.
The contemporary, who was not named, supposedly said Farage had just used “schoolboy banter”, which was occasionally offensive but “never with malice”.
When the BBC reporter tried to circle back to his original question about the accuracy of the claims against him, Farage just moved on to a different press question.
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He told the reporter: “Until you apologise for all of your [BBC] output, your appalling output at the same that I’m accused of saying these things that I deny – I’m not speaking to you.”
Asked if he was going to sue Barnett over defamation, he said such legal claims take up a lot of “emotional and legal capital”.
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Donald Trump’s spokeswoman has branded the BBC “100% fake news” over claims the broadcaster doctored a speech made by the US president.
Panorama has been accused of misrepresenting comments Trump made outside the White House prior to the riots on January 6, 2020.
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An internal memo said an edition of the BBC’s Panorama programme broadcast last October had spliced together two sections of President Trump’s speech to supporters to give a misleading impression of what he actually said.
In one section, Trump appears to say he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”.
However, Trump actually said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.
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He called on his supporters to “fight like hell” later in the speech amid false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.
A 19-page dossier on the incident, seen by the Daily Telegraph, was sent to the BBC board by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the corporation’s editorial guidelines and standards committee.
Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, has already branded the BBC “full of shit” over the controversy.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said: “This purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100 per cent fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom.
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“Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day listening to their blatant propaganda and lies about the president of the United States and all that he’s doing to make America better and the world a safer place.”
A BBC spokesman told the Telegraph: “While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully.
“Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debated.”
She accused the broadcaster of spreading “misinformation” over the way it covered claims that Israel had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in June.
But in a video posted on X, BBC News analysis editor Ros Atkins said Leavitt’s diatribe “was repeatedly false”.
“This contains a mix of misrepresentation and untruths,” he added.
Jeremy Bowen said the US president had “scored a diplomatic triumph” in securing a ceasefire and the imminent release of the remaining Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.
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As part of the deal, Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza and around 250 Palestinian prisoners, as well as 1,700 other Gazan detainees, will also be freed.
Keir Starmer will join world leaders, including Donald Trump, at a peace summit in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt on Monday.
But speaking on BBC1′s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Bowen insisted there were numerous hurdles still to be cleared before a long-term peace is in place.
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He said: “The ceasefire at the moment seems pretty OK, not least because the Americans are pushing the Israelis very strongly not to break it.
“However, in terms of governance of Gaza, security in Gaza for the Palestinians and for the Israelis over the border, for the future economy of the territory, and also the idea of having a multi-national force in place, none of these things, the really difficult stuff, has been agreed.
“The Trump 20-point plan points to where they want it to go and what the objective is. How you get there hasn’t been worked out and that’s where the real problems, I think, are going to start.
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“When there are problems in that process, that will impact on the stability ultimately of the ceasefire.”
He added: “Today and tomorrow are days for everybody to celebrate and it’s absolutely right to say that Donald Trump has scored a diplomatic triumph in making this happen so quickly.
“But underlying everything that’s happening is this conflict between Israelis and Palestinians for control of the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea that started more than a century ago.
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“It’s complicated, it’s multi-faceted, it’s multi-layered, and it’s generational. And until the fundamentals of that are sorted out and settled in a way that both sides can accept, sadly I’m absolutely certain that the conflict will continue.”
But, speaking on the first day of the Conservatives’ annual conference in Manchester, Badenoch tried to downplay criticism that she needed to do more to help her party.
The BBC’s Kuenssberg tried to bring up the topic by saying: “While you have been working out exactly what you wanted to do, the Conservative Party’s position – which was already dreadful – has got worse –”
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But Badenoch cut in: “Laura. Polls are not elections.
“If I had rushed out and said all those things right at the beginning, people would have said, ‘Why should we believe you? Why have you suddenly changed?’
“Simply saying something doesn’t mean you’re going to be fine in the polls.
“What you’re saying is a counterfactual. You don’t know that if I had rushed out all of those things right at the beginning that we would be doing well. You have no idea.
“What I’m doing is being very consistent. I’m saying, vote for me, we will get through this, we’re going to have very clear credible plans, they’re not going to fall apart the minute someone asks a question like you get with Reform.”
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During the same interview, Badenoch did actually refuse to many detailed questions about her new plan to control the country’s borders by removing 150,000 people with “no right” to be in the UK per year.
When Kuenssberg asked where these so-called illegal migrants would be deported, the Tory leader said: “I am tired of answering these irrelevant questions about where they should go. They will go back to where they should be or another country, but they should not be here!”
The MP for North West Essex also used her time on air to lay into Labour, claiming: “We’re not going to waste our time in opposition – like Labour did, they had 14 years in opposition, and they’ve got nothing.”
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But the Tory leader has been heavily criticised herself for taking such a long time to come up with many firm policies, despite winning the leadership contest last November.
Kuenssberg concluded their interview by asking Badenoch: “What if the problem is you?”
She replied: “I was elected to do exactly what I am doing now. And I think Conservative Party members are going to keep their faith in me.”
She refused to say she would resign if the Tories performed poorly in the May local elections.
🚨🎥 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch hits back at claims her slow policy rollout hurt the Tories’ polling
\"What you’re saying is counterfactual. You don’t know that if I had rushed out all those things right at the beginning that we would be doing well, you have no idea\" pic.twitter.com/pBt6Wr1vpy
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You don’t know that if I had rushed out all those things right at the beginning that we would be doing well, you have no idea\" pic.twitter.com/pBt6Wr1vpy— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) October 5, 2025\n\n\n","options":{"_hide_media":{"label":"Hide photos, videos, and cards","value":false},"_maxwidth":{"label":"Adjust width","placeholder":"220-550, in px","value":""},"_theme":{"value":"","values":{"dark":"Use dark theme"}}},"provider_name":"Twitter","thumbnail_height":614,"thumbnail_url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1974761474930212864/img/SzAX8EQuHwWKDK9Y.jpg:large","thumbnail_width":1108,"title":"Politics UK on Twitter / 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🚨🎥 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch hits back at claims her slow policy rollout hurt the Tories’ polling
“What you’re saying is counterfactual. You don’t know that if I had rushed out all those things right at the beginning that we would be doing well, you have no idea” pic.twitter.com/pBt6Wr1vpy
On Monday evening, their replacements were officially confirmed, with former regular guest critic Grace Dent being appointed a full-time judge moving forward.
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She’ll be joined at the helm by chef Anna Haugh, who previously served as a judge on one series of Masterchef: The Professionals in 2022.
Grace enthused: “I’m over the moon to be coming back to the MasterChef kitchen and unearthing what culinary skills people have been cooking up behind closed doors.
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“It’s a joy to be working with Anna, who brings all her incredible experience to the table. I am in for such a treat with this series, I can’t wait to get started.”
Anna agreed: “I’m delighted to be back on MasterChef and judging alongside the wonderful Grace Dent, whose writing and wit I’ve admired for years.
“MasterChef has long inspired and resonated with cooks in home kitchens and of course in my industry. I can’t wait to get into the studio for what will be a great competition.”
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Prior to that, it was revealed that Saturday Kitchen host Matt Tebbutt would be taking over Gregg Wallace’s old slot on Masterchef: The Professionals.
Masterchef: The Professionals stars Marcus Wareing, Matt Tebbutt, Monica Galetti
Gregg was fired as the host of MasterChef in July, after almost 20 years at the helm, following claims that were upheld in a report alleging the use of sexual language and one case of unwanted physical contact.
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He has since apologised for “any distress caused” by his behaviour, while also noting that he was cleared of what he described as “the most serious and sensational accusations”.
The most recent season of MasterChef was filmed last year, featuring both Gregg and John as usual, although the BBC made the decision to greatly reduce their screen-time.
Nigel Farage just laughed and insisted he had “no idea” when asked about how a Reform UK mayor just received a huge pay rise – and was instantly torn apart on social media.
So far, it has an outright majority over 10 local authorities after a major victory in May’s local elections.
But, judging by the Reform leader’s response to a development in Scarborough council, handling any more than that may prove difficult.
On the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the presenter asked for his response to reports that Scarborough town council have given its Reform mayor, Thomas Murray, a 600% pay rise.
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But Farage immediately hit back: “I’ve no idea! Whether what you say is true or not, I’ve no idea.”
“Is that the right thing to do in principle?” Kuenssberg asked.
“I’ve no idea, it’s a town council – 600%, what is it from what?” Farage said.
She replied: “A payment of £500 up to £3,500 –”
“I don’t know, is he or she doing it as a full-time job? I’ve no idea,” he said dismissively.
But Kuenssberg kept pushing: “In principle is that the right thing to do?”
He replied: “What we could do is get multi-millionaires to stand as candidates everywhere, and indeed our [government waste] DOGE team are doing the work, unpaid, right?
“If people have got resources and they want to do it for free, that’s great. I don’t know the Scarborough circumstances.”
The Reform-run council defended the hike, which was approved in a meeting last Wednesday, saying the mayor should not be left “out of pocket” for an unpaid position considering it involved an increase in responsibilities.
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They also noted that savings had already been made elsewhere – ignoring the irony that Reform has reportedly promised to give council taxpayers “better value for money and reduce excessive expenditure”.
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His responses impressed very few people on social media as the public raged over his “unserious” reaction – and even accused him of “running” from problems…
Yeah if you can’t keep a handle on 10 councils, you probably shouldn’t attempt four nations, 350 constituencies and 26 government departments. https://t.co/NQuVbcMUNr
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Yeah if you can’t keep a handle on 10 councils, you probably shouldn’t attempt four nations, 350 constituencies and 26 government departments. https://t.co/NQuVbcMUNr
Doesn’t know. Doesn’t care. Never has done. Complete fucking charlatan. Will this country ever move on from this reductive gobshite? https://t.co/8tRQ7E8Oce
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Doesn’t know. Doesn’t care. Never has done. Complete fucking charlatan. Will this country ever move on from this reductive gobshite? https://t.co/8tRQ7E8Oce
Firstly, why is he getting still more air time? Secondly, what do you expect? Nothing is ever down to him. Not me mate, big boy done it and ran away. https://t.co/TOtWsZ1oTV
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Firstly, why is he getting still more air time? Secondly, what do you expect? Nothing is ever down to him. Not me mate, big boy done it and ran away. https://t.co/TOtWsZ1oTV
Farage also seemed dismissive of other, much larger, questions about money elsewhere in the interview when he was asked how much it would cost to privatise 50% of the water industry – one of Reform’s major policy proposals.
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He just said it “doesn’t need to be a big sum of money.”
So commentators on X quickly drew attention to the way Kuenssberg scrutinised Reform’s economic credibility…
Straight out the Trump playbook – say something that sounds good but have no way of backing it up. I understand that people are disillusioned with existing establishments parties, but to just blindly start following and voting for Farage will be a catastrophic mistake. https://t.co/bmtDm6NNOD
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Straight out the Trump playbook – say something that sounds good but have no way of backing it up. I understand that people are disillusioned with existing establishments parties, but to just blindly start following and voting for Farage will be a catastrophic mistake. https://t.co/bmtDm6NNOD
Keir Starmer has demanded answers from the BBC for broadcasting “appalling hate speech” from Glastonbury.
The prime minister added his voice to the backlash against punk duo Bob Vylan after they led the festival crowd in chants of “death to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces)” on Saturday afternoon.
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Their performance was streamed live on the BBC iPlayer.
Starmer told the Telegraph: “There is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech. I said that Kneecap should not be given a platform and that goes for any other performers making threats or inciting violence.
“The BBC needs to explain how these scenes came to be broadcast.”
Health secretary Wes Streeting had earlier said both the BBC and Glastonbury “have questions to answer”.
He told Sky News: “I thought it was appalling to be honest and I think the BBC and Glastonbury have got questions to answer on how we saw such a spectacle on our screens.
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“I also think it was a pretty shameless publicity stunt that I don’t want to give too much indulgence to for that reason.”
A spokesperson for the BBC said: “Some of the comments made during Bob Vylan’s set were deeply offensive.
“During this live stream on iPlayer, which reflected what was happening on stage, a warning was issued on screen about the very strong and discriminatory language.
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“We have no plans to make the performance available on demand.”
In a statement posted on Instagram on Sunday, Glastonbury’s organisers also said they were “appalled” by Bob Vylan’s performance.
They said: “Their chants very much crossed a line and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place for antisemitism, hate speech or incitement to violence”.
It is all “downhill” for Donald Trump from now onwards after his strikes on Iran, according to the BBC’s world affairs editor.
The US president announced overnight that America has “obliterated” three nuclear facilities in Iran, and urged Tehran to come to the negotiating table or face further attacks.
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The move comes after Israel began a week of exchanging fire with Iran.
“I feel last night was a big change, a major turn of the page,” John Simpson said on BBC News. “In one major respect, I think it’s downhill for President Trump from now on.”
The broadcaster continued: “He’s losing the support of the isolationists among the MAGA-supporters, of whom there are a large if not dominant amount.
“He’s done something he promised he wouldn’t do and he’s moving against that, and I think we’ll find that his power will start to diminish after this.”
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In his election campaign, Trump promised to be a peaceful president, and put “America First” by pulling the States out of other countries’ wars.
But many of his supporters now question if that is still his thinking, considering he has just pulled the US into a raging war in conflict.
Simpson also discussed the likelihood of an Iranian response.
He said: “We shouldn’t overestimate Iran’s strengths or its abilities.”
“Yes of course it can do asymmetrical attacks,” he noted, but added that these were “limited small-time” moves which are not “population-threatening”.
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“We shouldn’t be too scared about Iran’s likely retaliation,” he said.
Simpson sent a similar message on X, saying: “As a result of his bombing of Iran, Trump’s presidency has entered new and much more conflicted territory.
“The US isolationist right are already criticising him. Trump could now be involved in precisely the kind of war he blamed his predecessors for.”
As a result of his bombing of Iran, Trump’s presidency has entered new and much more conflicted territory. The US isolationist right are already criticising him. Trump could now be involved in precisely the kind of war he blamed his predecessors for.
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As a result of his bombing of Iran, Trump’s presidency has entered new and much more conflicted territory. The US isolationist right are already criticising him. Trump could now be involved in precisely the kind of war he blamed his predecessors for.
A senior official in Donald Trump’s government has said claims that Israel is blocking food from entering Gaza are “fake news” as he clashed with a BBC journalist.
Sebastian Gorka, the US president’s senior director for counter-terrorism, insisted that a “simply gargantuan amount of food” had entered the territory during the ongoing conflict.
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He also repeatedly threatened to end the interview on Radio 4′s World At One as he was questioned by presenter Sarah Montague.
The clash came after Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), told the BBC: “Starvation is spreading, people are exhausted, people are hungry.
“We can expect that in the coming weeks if no aid is coming in, that people will not die because of the bombardment, but they will die because of the lack of food. This is the weaponisation of humanitarian aid.”
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But Gorka said: “I wouldn’t listen to anyone who represents UNRWA. UNRWA is utterly morally corrupt and politically. It’s workers have been found to be actually working with the terrorists and helping to kill innocent individuals simply because they are Jewish.
“If you look at the math of the simply gargantuan amount of food that Israel has allowed into Gaza, which would feed multiples of the residents who live there, you have to ask yourself ‘so where is that food really going?’
“So what’s happening in Gaza is the result of the mass slaughter of innocent men, women and children in the greatest loss of Jewish life since the end of the Holocaust, and Israel has every right to do what it’s doing so it will never happen again.”
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Montague pointed out that UNRWA has more than 30,000 staff, of which nine were found to have “questions to answer and have been removed” over their alleged links to Hamas.
Gorka then interrupted her to say: “That is nine too many. That is the real story. The real story isn’t fake news about starvation. The real story is UNRWA working in league with the terrorists.”
Asked if there would be “a problem with baby formula going into Gaza”, the Trump official replied: “I’m not going to talk about this. It’s garbage, it’s rubbish.
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“There are factors more food going into Gaza than physically can be eaten by the putative population.”
As Montague tried to ask another question, Gorka said: “You’re interrupting me again. I will terminate this interview, OK? If you persist in talking about fake news about starvation in Gaza we are done, we are finished.”
The presenter then asked him: “Do we accept that no food has gone into Gaza in the last two months?”
Gorka replied: “I’m not going to talk about this garbage fake news. If you ask me one more question about it we are done.”
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He went on to accuse Montague of repeating “state propaganda” and added: “If you want to ask me about the incredible things President Trump is doing in the Middle East… I’m prepared to do so. I’m not going to countenance your propaganda.”
Later in the same interview, Gorka also went on an extraordinary rant after being asked about Trump’s willingness to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar.
The president has come under fire after it emerged the plane could serve as Trump’s new Air Force One.
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Trump has defended the move, declaring that it’d be “stupid” for him to pass on the aircraft and claiming it wouldn’t be a “gift” for him but to the US’ Department of Defence.
Critics have since pointed to a clause in the US constitution prohibiting officials from accepting gifts from “any King, Prince, or foreign State” without congressional approval.
Montague asked Gorka: “Is there a problem with this, because it doesn’t look like it’s draining the swamp?”
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Gorka replied: “Do you ever have pangs of conscience that you are so utterly and completely biased that all you can do is give in to your Trump derangement syndrome?
“Have you ever once said anything positive about President Trump or not knelt at the altar of left-wing ideology?”
