Reform UK’s newest recruit said in 2015 he would be frightened to live in a Britain run by the party’s leader
The former Conservative chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, has been unveiled by Nigel Farage as Reform UK’s newest heavyweight political recruit.
However, critical comments that both men made about each other in the past have led to awkward questions for Zahawi and his new party leader.
“I’m not British Born Mr @Nigel_Farage I am as British as u r. Yr comments r offensive&racist. I wld be frightened 2live in country run by U”
Zahawi in a 2015 tweet, which was only deleted on Monday as he announced his defection to Reform UK. The tweet appears to have been in response to a broadcast interview in 2015 in which Farage was asked if he was in favour of keeping laws that ban employment discrimination on the grounds of race or colour. Farage answered “no” though later claimed he had been “wilfully misrepresented”.
