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  "textContent": "\n\n\nNigel Farage has vowed to face down strikes, protests and riots in a crusade to slash Britain's ballooning benefits bill.\n\nThe Reform UK leader said a \"massive change of thought\" was needed on the welfare system - with the country needing to toughen up and shrug off handouts for things like \"mild anxiety\".\n\n\"I'm sorry, but mild anxiety is not a reason to be on disability benefit - it just isn't. We can't afford it, it can't continue,\" he told the Mail.\n\n\"And there'll be riots, and there'll be strikes and there'll be protests, and we know all of that, but that's what we're going to have to do. It has to be done. We just can't afford it now.\"\n\n\nHis party is set to unveil radical proposals after the local elections which would cut tens of billions of pounds of tax-funded payouts.\n\nThey could require the millions of so-called \"inactive\" people around the country to look for a job.\n\nMr Farage also said Reform was taking over the mantle of the \"party of working people\" in a major challenge to Sir Keir Starmer's floundering Labour.\n\n\"I'm sorry, but as I go around the country... I now believe there's one big divide in British society: those that work and those that don't,\" he said.\n\n**_FOLLOW BELOW FOR LIVE UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAY..._**\n\n### Nigel Farage RULES OUT pact with Tories just days after Kemi Badenoch's plunging polling exposed\n\n\n\n\nNigel Farage has ruled out forming an electoral pact with the Conservatives just days after Kemi Badenoch's plunging polling was exposed.\n\nWhile the Reform leader admitted he could not rule out a deal after an election, he told the Daily Mail it would be a \"highly undesirable\" outcome.\n\n\"They don't deserve it,\" Mr Farage spat.\n\nAccording to a recent YouGov poll, Mrs Badenoch's party sits ten percent lower than Reform at a dismal 17 per cent.\n\nLast month, Reform MP - and Tory defector - Danny Kruger urged his former party to give way and allow Reform to become the sole party of the British right.\n\nHe said: \"There is a real danger that some kind of terrible coalition of the left wins the next election because the right is split.\n\n\"I don't think there is a future for the Conservative Party as a national party.\"\n\n### Lord Hermer reported for 'misconduct' after being accused of 'witch-hunt' of British troops\n\n\n\n\nLord Hermer has been reported to the barristers' watchdog over alleged serious professional misconduct for his role in a so-called \"witch-hunt\" against British soldiers.\n\nA former Defence Minister and the Shadow Justice Secretary have requested the Bar Standards Board investigate the Attorney General for his role in Iraqi clients' legal battles against UK troops.\n\nReform UK leader Nigel Farage, meanwhile, has separately reported the Attorney General to the House of Lords' standards commissioner.\n\nThe Attorney General acted as leading counsel in a case where UK troops were accused of murdering Iraqis who were held as prisoners of war at a British Army base...\n\n**READ THE FULL STORY HERE**\n\n### Breaking overnight... Donald Trump threatens Britain with all-new tariffs over 'cash grab' tax on American firms\n\n\n\n\nPresident Donald Trump has threatened to slap Britain with all-new tariffs if it does not drop its \"cash grab\" tax on American companies.\n\nThe digital services tax - which came into effect in 2020 - imposes a two per cent levy on the revenues of a number of major US tech companies.\n\nIt was introduced by the Conservatives to address the large gap between the revenue being generated by British users for the social media firms compared to the amount of tax being paid to the Government.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Trump threatened to impose a \"big tariff\" on Britain if Labour does not scrap the measure.\n\nHe told reporters at the Oval Office: “We’ve been looking at it and we can meet that very easily by just putting a big tariff on the UK, so they better be careful.\n\n“If they don’t drop the tax, we’ll probably put a big tariff on the UK.”\n\n**READ THE FULL STORY HERE**\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
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