{"id":218020,"date":"2025-10-22T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:19:09","slug":"nigel-farage-stages-furious-pmqs-protest-in-response-to-reform-uk-attacks-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218020\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage stages furious PMQs protest in response to Reform UK attacks | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/nigel-farage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage<\/a> staged a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/pmqs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PMQs<\/a> protest as he reacted with fury to Labour&#8217;s attacks against <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/reform-uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reform UK<\/a>. The Reform leader watched the session from the side gallery instead of the House of Commons chamber.<\/p>\n<p>He said he made the decision because he is repeatedly attacked by Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/keir-starmer\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer<\/a> and other Labour MP but is not allowed to respond. Mr Farage wrote on X: &#8220;Every week at PMQs I am attacked by the PM and Labour MPs, but have no right of reply. I am just a mere spectator. So I have decided to spectate from the public gallery today instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister takes questions from MPs for around half-an-hour each Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>MPs who want to ask a question, alongside the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders Kemi Badenoch and Sir Ed Davey, can enter a ballot for one of 15 slots, in a random selection sometimes known as &#8220;the shuffle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Reform, which has five MPs, is consistently leading national opinion polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage staged a PMQs protest as he reacted with fury to Labour&#8217;s attacks against Reform UK. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,2053,50,633,93370,70,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-218020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-prime-ministeru2019s-questions","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}