'We intend to disrupt the cosy status quo'

Farage blasts Labour and Tories on border bill

- Michael Knowles

NIGEL Farage has branded Labour ministers who failed to vote for Sir Keir Starmer's small boats plan as "complacent".

The Reform UK leader declared that his party managed to force a vote on the "useless" Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, accusing the Conservatives of planning to abstain and let it pass unchallenged.

Mr Farage told the Express "we intend to disrupt the cosy status quo", adding his party "are the real opposition".

Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Deputy PM Angela Rayner, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, Culture Secretary Lisa.

Nandy and Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden were among 70 Labour MPs who did not vote for the bill.