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Huffington Post // Politics

Starmer's Jibe At Farage's PMQs Absence Is So Good, Even Reform UK MPs Were Laughing

Wednesday 21st May 2025, 12:03PM


Keir Starmer and Lee Anderson in the Commons for PMQsKeir Starmer mocked Nigel Farage after the Reform UK leader dodged parliament to go on holiday.The prime minister even had Farage’s own party colleagues laughing at his jibe at the globe-trotting right-winger.Farage was dubbed “a part-time leader” on Tuesday after confirming that he was on a foreign holiday, despite the Commons going into a week-long recess on Friday.Starmer could not resist having a dig of his own after being asked a question by Reform UK MP Lee Anderson.The Ashfield MP said: “This prime minister keeps telling his gullible backbenchers – those people over there – that he has deported 24,000 people from this country since the election, but he won’t say who these people are.”He asked: “How many people he has deported are failed asylum seekers that come on small boats or on the back of lorries? Answer the question.”“I am very proud that we have deported over 24,000 people, the highest record for n

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