{"id":394581,"date":"2026-01-28T07:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:20:09","slug":"nigel-farage-would-be-a-disaster-for-the-united-kingdom-if-he-becomes-pm-says-new-uup-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394581\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage would be a \u2018disaster for the United Kingdom\u2019 if he becomes PM, says new UUP leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In an interview with The BelTel podcast, UUP leader-in-waiting Jon Burrows talks about his meteoric rise, how to sell the union, and \u2018maverick\u2019 Nigel Farage\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nigel Farage (left) is 'a maverick', says Jon Burrows (right)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Inset template - 2026-01-28T071235.001.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Nigel Farage (left) is &#8216;a maverick&#8217;, says Jon Burrows (right)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">UUP leader-in-waiting Jon Burrows has launched a blistering attack on his Reform UK counterpart and claimed it would be a \u201cdisaster\u201d if he became the next Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The North Antrim MLA took aim at Nigel Farage as he criticised both extremes of the political spectrum, while urging fellow unionists to imitate their republican rivals and play the long game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with The BelTel podcast, UUP leader-in-waiting Jon Burrows talks about his meteoric rise, how to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45110,16669,43428,59,57,58,50,633,56,33687,54,55],"class_list":["post-394581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-brett-campbell","tag-democratic-unionist-party","tag-gavin-robinson","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-uk","tag-ulster-unionist-party","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394581","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=394581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}