Row breaks out between Tories and Reform at Piddington news conference – UK politics live

United front is short-lived as Zia Yusuf and Chris Philp bicker in front of residents and cameras A news conference in Piddington has descended into a shouting match between Reform’s Zia Yusuf and the Conservative’s Chris Philp. The two men, who are both home affairs spokespeople

United front is short-lived as Zia Yusuf and Chris Philp bicker in front of residents and cameras A news conference in Piddington has descended into a shouting match between Reform’s Zia Yusuf and the Conservative’s Chris Philp. The two men, who are both home affairs spokespeople for their respective parties, appeared alongside Piddington parish council leader Tim McNally at a media event designed to outline local opposition to government plans to for a local accommodation site for asylum seekers. Would you like to actually apologise for the things that you did in government to bring hundreds of thousands of people into this country illegally?

Are you going to take the opportunity to apologise to the people of Piddington and to the country? [Burnham hasn’t] extended to us as simple as courtesy of consideration of what we are going to have to consider, to receive here as our new incumbent guests that you have targeted for us - 1,250 men. Continue reading...