Farage urged to condemn Reform MP’s warning about ‘LGBT-supporting’ parties

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been urged to condemn one of his MPs who said that an “LGBT-supporting” party could win the next election. 

East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger, who previously compared NHS gender clinics for trans youngsters to “Alice in Wonderland”, made the comment while discussing a “”kaleidoscope of left-wing parties”. 

In the interview, which was shared on Reform UK’s YouTube page, Kruger, who defected to the party from the Conservatives last month, claimed that the UK could soon be led by an “appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party”.

Farage is now facing calls to condemn the comments. The controversy comes after he said he was unhappy with an “ugly” remark from another Reform MP, Sarah Pochin, who said seeing Black and Asian faces in adverts made her mad. However, he refused to label it racist.

Kruger said Reform was “up against Lib Dems, Labour, Greens, we’ve got the nationalists in Wales and Scotland, there’s [Jeremy] Corbyn,” which, he said, “shows how bad things are in our country”. 

He went on to say: “What I worry about is they’re going to get together after the next election and have some sort of appalling, Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting, nationalist party against the United Kingdom, trying to get us back into the EU, all the things the British people have rejected time and again.

“The only way to stop that is Reform. That means, including if you’re a former Conservative, I’m afraid to say, you’ve got to join us.”

Polly Billington, Labour MP for East Thanet, in Kent, told The Mirror that Farage should condemn the “outdated and out-of-line” comments. 

“British values of decency, compassion and respect are under threat from Reform,” she said. “That is what we’re up against: the politics of division and grievance that would take our great country to a very dark place.” 

In 2023, Kruger told the National Conservatism Conference that heterosexual marriage was “the only basis for a safe and successful society”. Asked if he agreed with that, Farage answered: “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.”

To counter this claim, PinkNews compiled a list of famous LGBTQ+ couples in stable relationships.

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