Twice-married Nigel Farage claims the ‘most stable relationships’ are between men and women

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who has been married twice, has been met with criticism after claiming the ‘most stable relationships’ exist between a man and a woman.

Nigel Farage, who has been married and separated from two women, was welcoming former Conservative MP Danny Kruger to the Reform UK party at a press conference when he was quizzed on Kruger’s past comments on same-sex couples.

Kruger told the National Conservatism Conference in 2023 that heterosexual marriage was “the only basis for a safe and successful society”.

When questioned whether he agreed with Kruger, Farage doubled down, and answered that “the most stable relationships tend to be between men and women”.

Farage, who has been married twice and is separated from his second wife, added: “I think one thing for certain is children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life. And the most stable relationships, maybe not my example, but the most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men and women.”

He continued: “I’m not absolutist about this in any way at all. I just happen to think of kids in the country not getting the start at home or at school that they deserve.”

Via The Independent, Labour MP Nadia Whittome said in response: “This is vile homophobia that has no bearing on reality. Make no mistake: Farage is seeking to reopen settled debates on gay marriage and adoption, in order to stir up further hatred and division.

“The rights of the whole LGBT+ community would be in danger under a Reform government.”

A Stonewall spokesperson said: “In the modern world we live in, families are diverse and come in all shapes and sizes. The most important thing is for children to be brought up in a stable, supportive, loving environment, that will enable them to develop and thrive.” 

The Office for National Statistics shows that in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available, a total of 103,816 legal partnership dissolutions occurred, including divorce and civil partnership dissolutions. 1,891 of these (1.8%) were same-sex relationships.

In July this year, Farage branded same-sex marriage “wrong”. The Reform UK leader, who was in September called a “Putin-loving Trump sycophant” by a US congressman, is currently polling well in the UK.

The party takes aim in its policy pledge, entitled “Our contract with you“, at immigration, multiculturalism and “divisive, ‘woke’ ideology”, with Reform stating “transgender indoctrination is causing irreversible harm to children”.

Kruger, MP for East Wiltshire, is the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.