One thing we know about the twice-divorced Nigel Farage is that he’s got a lot of love to give. And he certainly did that last week in an excruciating interview with Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain.
Repeatedly referring to his interlocutor as “love”, Farage responded to a question about Russian planes entering Nato airspace by saying “Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard, listen love, you’re trying ever so hard, I’m the only person in the world, I think, that stood up in the European Parliament in 2014… do you know what I said? ‘There will be a war in Ukraine. It’s coming’. And I’m the only person who got it right.”
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Leaving aside the Trumpian tone and the question of whether such a war was desirable (his European Parliament speech came in the same year he told GQ Vladimir Putin was the world leader he most admired), it’s another glance into the stale, male nature of Reform.
Earlier this year, Sarah Pochin, Reform’s only female MP, said of her new colleagues: “It’s all very new for them having more women, but for me it’s just a job. I have worked all my life in male-dominated businesses, starting with selling marine lubricants for Shell.” Of her new colleagues, she said: “Most male MPs were lovely. There were a couple who were chauvinistic, but I can deal with that.”
Three months later, she was seen on video ironing the shirt of her chief whip, Lee Anderson.
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