Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has admitted that the party is not “perfect” after a Channel 4 investigation filmed a canvasser saying that migrants crossing the Channel should be used as “target practice”. Mr Farage said "you get the odd exception, like Andrew Parker, that turns up and is gratuitiously offensive, and that is wrong, and he is gone." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Ordinary folk don't do Westminster speak, ordinary folk speak in all sorts of terms.
00:05You get the odd exception, like Andrew Parker, who turns up and is gratuitously offensive
00:11and that's wrong and he's gone.
00:13I've inherited these people, remember that, I came in very much at the last minute, there
00:17was a big Charlie Charlie call out for volunteers, people came forward, I tried at the last minute
00:23to get a professional betting company to come in to sort it out, despite paying the money
00:27they let us down.
00:28Look, a lot of what's being said is nonsense, a lot of it is just the way people talk, alright.
00:34Where I find people who are genuinely offensive, I deal with it.
00:38These days almost anything can be written off as racist and homophobic.
00:42When I see it, and I see malice, I comment on it.
00:45When it's everyday speak, then I accept that not everybody has been to Oxford University.