Badenoch says Farage should be ‘straight with people’ about donations and gifts – UK politics live

Labour earlier asked the Electoral Commission to investigate claims that Farage broke electoral law by not disclosing giftsQ: Do you think the parliamentary commissioner for standards should investigate Nigel Farage’s gifts from George Cottrell?Badenoch said that was a matter for the commissioner.[Farage is] hinting at press regulation. For all of the criticism and the attacks, and I would even say abuse that I’ve got from the press, I’ve never once recommended curbing our free press. I think this is one of the amazing things about this country.I would be very worried about a Reform government using government power to control the press. I don’t think that that would be right. Continue reading...