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Farage claims overlap with Corbyn on business and EU
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK East of England conference at Chelmsford City Racecourse. Picture date: Saturday January 4, 2025
REFORM leader Nigel Farage has reached out to claim the mantle of Corbynism with an outburst against big business, asserting that his politics had an overlap with those of the former Labour leader.
Asked by the Politics Joe website what he had in common with Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Farage replied: “Anti-establishment, obviously.
“A sense that the giant corporations now dominate the world that we live in, that politics is very much in the pocket of the big corporates,” Mr Farage said, adding that his politics and Corbyn’s had a “cross-over.”
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