Nigel Farage admits depicting Angela Rayner as cow in abbatoir ‘not very funny’

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.