Nigel Farage faces calls to act after Reform MP Danny Kruger was filmed warning the UK could soon be led by an ‘appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party’
Nigel Farage has been urged to condemn the “dinosaurs” in his party after one of his MPs moaned about the country facing an “LGBT supporting” alliance.
Danny Kruger – who recently defected from the Tories to Reform UK – made the bizarre comment as he aired his concerns of a “kaleidoscope of left-wing parties”. In the clip, shared on Reform UK’s YouTube page, he listed supporting LGBT rights alongside backing Hamas.
The remarks have been branded “outdated and out of line”, with Mr Farage facing calls to condemn them. It comes after he said he was angry at an “ugly” remark by Reform’s Sarah Pochin – who said seeing Black and Asian faces in adverts made her mad – but refused to call it racist.
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Speaking during Reform UK’s membership drive over the weekend, Mr Kruger – son of TV host Prue Leith – warned the UK could soon be led by an “appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party”.
He said Reform was “up against Lib Dems, Labour, Greens, we’ve got the nationalists in Wales and Scotland, there’s Corbyn”. Mr Kruger went on: “You know that shows how bad things are in our country.
“What I worry about is they’re going to get together after the next election and have some sort of appalling, you know, Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting, you know, nationalist party against the United Kingdom trying to get us back into the EU.”
He went on: “All the things that the British people have rejected time and again. The only way to stop that is Reform. And so that means, you know, including if you’re a former Conservative, I’m afraid to say, you’ve got to join us.”
Responding to the remarks, Polly Billington, Labour MP for East Thanet, told The Mirror : “Danny Kruger’s remarks are outdated and out of line. Stirring up division is Reform’s stock in trade and now LGBT people are being targeted. His words have direct consequences in our communities and should be condemned by Nigel Farage.
“It’s astounding that Kruger made these comments on the same day his colleague Sarah Pochin embarked on a racist rant about black and Asian people on TV.”
She added: “Our British values of decency, compassion and respect are under threat from Reform. That is what we’re up against – the politics of division and grievance that would take our great country to a very dark place.
“If Nigel Farage had any backbone, he’d stand up to these dinosaurs and take action. Failure to do so is an endorsement of these divisive views.”
Mr Kruger – the son of Great British Bake Off judge Ms Leith – previously caused controversy in 2023 for his comments on marriage. He told a right-wing conference in 2023 that marriages between men and women were “the only possible basis for a safe and successful society”.
In his speech, he said at the time: “The normative family – held together by marriage, by mother and father sticking together for the sake of the children and the sake of their own parents and for the sake of themselves – this is the only possible basis for a safe and successful society.”
It comes hot on the heels of a row about remarks made by Reform MP Ms Pochin. At the weekend she said it made her “mad” to see adverts full of Black and Asian people.
But on Monday Mr Farage said he was “unhappy” with the “ugly” comments made by Ms Pochin but insisted her intention was not to be racist. In a press conference in London, he repeatedly resisted calls to discipline the Runcorn and Helsby MP, who has faced condemnation from across the political spectrum.
“I am unhappy with what she has done,” he said. “I understand the basic point, but the way she put it, the way she worded it, was wrong and was ugly, and if I thought that the intention behind it was racist, I would have taken a lot more action than I have to date.”
Reform UK has been contacted about Mr Kruger’s remark.