Speaking to presenter Anna Botting as part of Sky News’s Makerfield byelection coverage, the Labour peer Thangam Debbonaire and the Reform MP Sarah Pochin clashed during a tense interview after an exchange about an undisclosed £5m personal gift accepted by Nigel Farage in 2024.
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Pochin claimed the Reform leader had received the gift before he was in politics. Debbonaire, who tried to interject several times, refuted the claim, saying: ‘You have been interrupting me all night, Sarah, and now you’re just talking rubbish.’
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