Mistaken

NOT about immigration, deporting women or for being a Trump puppet... BUT for saying Clacton house was his when it's hers

- BY SOPHIE HUSKISSON Political Correspondent and NICK SOMMERLAD Investigations Editor

NIGEL Farage yesterday lashed out at questions over his tax affairs when we asked him about not paying stamp duty on his Clacton pad.

Asked if he should resign over the issue, he told our reporter: “I think you’re disgusting.”

A security guard at the Reform conference then put his hands on our reporter to physically move her away.

A person standing beside her asked if she was okay after she stumbles backwards.

Mr Farage is under pressure after the Daily Mirror revealed how he saved £44,000 because his partner bought their house in his Essex constituency.

It came after he called for former deputy PM Angela Rayner to quit over her stamp duty blunder.

The Reform leader became rattled as he was grilled about tax on TV yesterday, hitting back “how dare you” when asked about stamp duty paid on his partner’s house. Mr Farage admitted on Sky News that he mis-spoke in January and last year when he said he had bought the house.

The four-bed home with a swimming pool is owned solely by his partner Laure Ferrari, 46, who shelled out almost £900,000 for it. “I should have said ‘we’,” he said. “It’s her money. It’s her asset. I own none of it. But I just happen to spend some time there.” Asked if it makes him look a bit dodgy, the Clacton MP said: “No, no… You can try as hard as you like, it’s nonsense.”

As her sole property, Ms Ferrari would be liable for around £32,000 in stamp duty, according to HMRC’s online calculator. If Mr Farage had bought it himself, it would have cost him at least £75,000 in second home stamp duty – saving £44,000 and leading to claims of hypocrisy for his calls for Ms Rayner to quit.

The scandal is threatening to overshadow his two-day Reform conference in Birmingham, which ended last night.

He confirmed he would lock up and deport women who arrive on small boats back to the Taliban if elected, and “make Britain great again”.