Is Farage turning Reform into a Trump tribute act?
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ed Davey closed the Lib Dem conference with a warning not to let Trump’s America become Farage's Britain. What might have sounded hyperbolic 24 hours ago sounded prescient by 8 am this morning - after Farage went on LBC and refused to distance himself from Trump's Tylenol conspiracy and then segued neatly into a discussion about immigrants eating swans (the Royal Park’s police deny all knowledge of this). Opinion polls suggest the Brits are not big fans of Trump. Has Ed Davey spotted political opportunity in exploiting this fully? And is Farage going off the boil?
Later, we sit down with novelist Ian McEwan to discuss memory, metaphysical gloom and modern Britain - which he gets to grips with in his new book 'What We Can Know'.
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| 0:13.2 | I wouldn't follow what Mr Kennedy's department does. |
| 0:15.3 | I'd listen to what they have to say, but I wouldn't follow it. |
| 0:17.7 | And frankly, nor would I follow the World Health Organization. |
| 0:21.9 | When Donald Trump talks about links between paracetamol or Tylenol and autism, is he right? I have no idea. You think he might be right? I have no idea. You know, we were told thalidomide was a very safe drug and it wasn't. Who knows? Nick, I don't know, you don't know. he has a particular thing about autism, |
| 0:38.2 | I think because there's been some in his family, |
| 0:40.3 | and it feels it very personal. I don't know, you don't know. He has a particular thing about autism, I think, because there's been some in his family, |
| 0:40.3 | and it fills it very personally. |
| 0:41.9 | I have no idea. |
| 0:43.7 | You wouldn't side with the medical experts who say it's dangerous. |
| 0:47.2 | I wouldn't. |
| 0:48.6 | When it comes to science, I don't side with anybody. |
| 0:50.9 | Nigel Farage can't answer a simple question. |
| 0:55.7 | Can you dismiss the Trump conspiracy theory that links Tylenol, paracetamol, with autism? |
| 1:03.3 | He can't because Donald Trump has declared it's true. |
| 1:08.3 | Ed Davy, the Liberal Democrat leader, said, we do not want Trump's America to become Farage's |
| 1:15.2 | Britain. Nigel Farage's inability to answer that question makes it seem that Ed Davy might have a point. |
| 1:23.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:29.3 | It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. |
| 1:32.3 | And Nigel Farage was on Nick Ferrari this morning. |
| 1:36.3 | When he said that no science is settled, well, I think that we know that if an apple falls from the tree, it hits the ground because of gravity. There are things |
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