'How Dare You': Farage Clashes With Beth Rigby After Admitting He Didn't Buy Clacton Home After All

Beth Rigby and Nigel Farage.Nigel Farage has admitted he never bought a house in his constituency – despite claiming last year that he had.The Reform UK leader said he had “misspoke” when he told Sky News he had “exchanged contracts” on the property in Clacton.“I’ve bought a house in Clacton,” he said last November. “What more do you want me to do?”But in a bad-tempered interview with the same broadcaster, Farage conceded that the house was actually bought by his partner without any contribution from him.That meant Farage – who does own other properties – was not liable for the extra stamp duty which is charged on additional homes.Speaking at Reform’s annual conference in Birmingham, Farage said: “I should have said ‘we’, alright? My partner bought it, so what?”He continued: “All right. I shouldn’t have said ‘I’. I should have said ‘we’. It’s her money. It’s her asset. I own none of it. But I just happen to spend some time there.”Farage claimed that he did not want to reveal his partner had bought it because he “didn’t want to put her in the public domain”.When interviewer Beth Rigby pointed out that meant the stamp duty liability was his partner’s rather than his, Farage said: ” How dare you. It’s her business, her money, her asset. And, do you know what? Actually, given that it’s in the constituency for security reasons, it’s better that way.”Anna Turley, who became Labour Party chair on Saturday as part of Keir Starmer’s government reshuffle, said: “Nigel Farage has repeatedly misled his constituents and the British public about buying a home in his constituency. “Given he has had much to say on other people’s tax affairs this week, it’s only right that he comes clean and makes the full facts over this public.“If what he told the public had been true, he would have been liable for tens of thousands of pounds of additional tax. But it wasn’t true. He told the public something that helped him politically, while in reality doing something that may have helped him financially. That’s double standards, it’s two-faced, and it’s hypocritical.”She added: “It’s time for him to put the full facts on the table. Was he advised to ask his partner to purchase the house in her name, and then pretend he owned it himself, in order to reduce his tax bill?”Related...Nigel Farage In Fresh U-Turn As He Vows To Deport Women To The TalibanFarage Branded 'Putin-Loving Trump Wannabe' By US Politician In Brutal SlapdownReform HQ Is Re-Branded 'Trump Tower' After Farage's White House Love-In

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