Tory leader criticises Farage for saying that holding another independence vote ‘probably quite reasonable’
Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative party, has accused Nigel Farage of being an opportunist who does not believe in unionism after he urged Scottish nationalists to back Reform.
Farage said earlier this week he believed “genuine nationalists” would not support the Scottish National party’s bid to rejoin the EU, and urged them to vote Reform in the Holyrood election on 7 May.
He also told the Scotsman that while he believed in the UK, it was “probably quite reasonable” to hold a second independence referendum in the future, “if this issue came back”.
Badenoch, speaking to reporters in Edinburgh on Thursday, said only her party was truly centre-right and unionist. “Nigel Farage doesn’t really believe in anything except Nigel Farage. He tells everybody what they want to hear,” she said.
