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    Nigel Farage accused of abusing MP role to make money

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    Nigel Farage accused of abusing MP role to make money

    Nigel Farage accused of abusing MP role to make money by the Liberal Democrat chief whip has accused Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson of using their seats in parliament to boost their own profiles in a stinging rebuke.

    At the party’s autumn conference in Brighton, Wendy Chamberlain said constituency work appeared not to be the priority for the Reform UK MPs, both of whom host shows on GB News.

    Nigel Farage accused of abusing MP role to make money

    Months after it was revealed Mr Farage was the highest-paid MP outside of parliament, with a £98,000-a-month for his GB News gig, Ms Chamberlain backed potential plans to stop MPs hosting shows outside parliament.

    Ms Chamberlain said: “The saddest thing of all is communities like Clacton and Ashfield are the ones that actually need the most assiduous constituency MPs to get underneath the casework. It suggests your priorities are, if you are earning more from doing that kind of stuff (TV) than you are as a constituency MP… I’d be interested to know what the constituency experiences are to date. You just need to look at Nigel Farage’s record in the European Parliament, he was doing more outside it than inside.”

    Wendy Chamberlain Liberal Democrats Chief Whip

    Farage deflects any wrongdoing

    In response, Mr Farage, who was in Chicago on Friday in this third visit to the US in just over two months said “I don’t know whether she goes on holiday. I have not this year but I am fulfilling diary commitments. We are making good progress in Clacton.”

    Halt the rise of Reform

    Ms Chamberlain also said the Labour government needed to do to halt the rise of Reform before the next election, adding he had to “deliver on a fundamental and basic level”.

    Halt the rise of Reform as Nigel Farage is accused of abusing MP role to make money.

    On the race riots erupted across the UK this summer, she said: “If you look at Southport, it was clearly nothing to do with the murder of three little girls, but it was all to do with people feeling they don’t have a voice, and Reform gives them it.”

    Ms Chamberlain’s comments came on the second day of the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference, with Sir Ed Davey promising the Lib Dems “will hold [the Government] to account” when they disagree, adding that the party believes there needs to be “reform and investment” in the health service to ensure we have a meaningful NHS debate.

    NHS debate

    Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, Sir Ed said his party “absolutely will challenge the Government where we disagree with them”, and pledged to be a “better opposition than the Conservatives”.

    He later added: “We’re worried that in the NHS debate, they’re talking about reform before investment, when we think there needs to be reform and investment.

    “So we will hold them to account, but we will be different from the Conservatives because being constructive means you have a different tone.”

    Reform won five seats at the General election, but had a 14.3 per cent share of the vote – higher than the Lib Dems, which received a 12.2 per cent share but elected 72 MP’s.

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    David Pike is an experienced news journalist with over 20 years experience as a UK News editor for WTX News and other news publications.

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