Party also says it will keep pensions triple lock at press conference overshadowed by departure of Simon Dudley after he said that Grenfell was tragic ‘but everyone dies in the end’
Farage and Jenrick are now taking questions.
Q: [From Christopher Hope from GB News] What is your reaction to the comments from Simon Dudley, your housing spokesperson. Will you sack him, as Keir Starmer is calling for? [See 8.51am and 9.12am.]
Farage says “that’s already happened”.
Dudley is no longer a party spokesperson, he says.
