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Reform UK 'anti-human rights' says comedian
The Chronicle
|January 19, 2026
ALAN Partridge actor Steve Coogan has said British political party Reform UK is "anti-human rights".
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Steve Coogan
The 60-year-old, who will star as football manager Mick McCarthy in the film Saipan, said he was also concerned world leaders felt they could "do what the f*** (they) like" in global conflicts.
He told Big Issue: "I'm very troubled by the notion of what is acceptable behaviour in terms of conflict, by both what's been happening in Gaza and these military attacks by the US on the boats and killing defenceless people and somehow trying to reframe that.
This story is from the January 19, 2026 edition of The Chronicle.
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