Farage responds after Reform local election stunt depicts female cabinet ministers as cows in abattoirSource: UK Pool
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00:00Archie Mitchell from The Independent.
00:03In the run-up to the local elections, reform activists set up a stall depicting Angela
00:08Raina, Bridget Philipson and Rachel Reeves as cows, said to be sent to the abattoir.
00:14Is it misogynistic to depict female cabinet ministers as cows, and is it appropriate to
00:19suggest that they're going to be sent to the abattoir, given MPs have been killed in recent
00:22years?
00:23Well, you've struck me there completely out of the blue.
00:26All sorts of appalling things get said and done by people fighting in elections at local
00:31and national election, and we get it done to us, and if one or two of our people do it
00:37to them, maybe they think it's funny.
00:40It probably isn't very funny.
00:42I can't pretend we're perfect, but what I can tell you is that one of the ways in which we
00:46have professionalised this party is to put people through a vetting process, and I think
00:52we've come up with a slate of elected councillors and mayors and a new MP that we can genuinely
01:00be very proud of.
01:01And if there is the odd lapse in taste, then I regret it, but it's carnical politics.
01:07Thank you very much.