Nigel Farage squirms when confronted on Reform UK MP’s past assault conviction in heated interview

Nigel Farage squirms when confronted on Reform UK MP's past assault convictionSky News

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00:00Do you believe in Christian forgiveness?

00:02Everyone believes in redemption, everyone should have second chances.

00:04Is he not a very good example?

00:06Nigel, that is not the question I'm asking.

00:07What I'm saying is there is a discrepancy here between what the court documents said

00:12and what James has said.

00:14Is that not an issue for constituents?

00:17That's the point.

00:18You go and knock on their doors.

00:20You go and knock on their doors and I'll bet you, in that part of Essex, there are many...

00:24The only one by 98 votes and there might have been people, particularly women, that might

00:28have suffered domestic abuse or violence or assault that might be uncomfortable with

00:33that.

00:34Do you take the point?

00:35No, I don't take the point because I'll bet you there are many young tearaways right now

00:41in Basel and elsewhere who have been sent off to young offenders' institutes who may

00:45well go on to lives of repetitive crime, maybe even violent crime.

00:51This is an example of a human being who's picked himself up from a terrible situation

00:55and made a big success of it.

00:56In terms of being an MP and representing constituents, my point here is not what happened.

01:02My point is that there is a discrepancy.

01:06He said I pushed that over.

01:07I believe you.

01:08I haven't seen the discrepancy.

01:09But that's the court document.

01:10It's a spent conviction, end of conversation.

01:11Well, what did he tell you he'd done?

01:12Well, what did he say he'd done to you?

01:13Spent conviction, end of conversation.