Reform UK leader Nigel Farage writes for News
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The presenter said the Reform UK leader was supposed to be interviewed on the show but then "changed his mind".
Farage pledged to deport up to 288,000 illegal migrants a year if it wins the next general election.
The broadcaster was forced to announce a major change in the political line-up minutes into the BBC show.
Reform UK held a pre-election rally in the Trago Mills car park on Tuesday evening
Polanski, Alexander and Badenoch all showed up.
Labour firebrand faces criticism over clip shared on X, making claims to schoolchildren about Reform UK
The 38-year-old's longstanding distrust of the populist Reform UK leader and Brexit campaigner has been eclipsed by his fears for the local economy, which he said had been hollowed out by decades of ruinous British government policy.