Zarah Sultana thinks Nigel Farage has the features of a fascist politician (Image: Getty)
Nigel Farage has “all the features of a fascist politician”, Zarah Sultana has said. Ms Sultana, the MP for Coventry South and co-founder of Your Party, a new political party with Jeremy Corbyn, accused Mr Farage and his fellow Reform MPs of being “committed to peddling racism”. When asked whether Nigel Farage can be compared to Hitler or Mussolini, Ms Sultana did not directly confirm the claim but also did not deny it, claiming that his actions make him “a danger”.
“I think it’s important that we stop a fascist Reform government,” Ms Sultana, who had been a prominent figure of the Labour left before she quit the party in July, added.
Mr Farage has not yet responded to Ms Sultana’s claims (Image: Getty)
Ms Sultana said this during an interview for the BBC’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.
When challenged on her use of the word “fascist”, Ms Sultana added: “When someone attacks trade union rights, when they are not supportive of minority communities, when they are trying to get us out of the ECHR [European Court of Human Rights] so they can get away with anything.
“When there is no state accountability, we can see what’s happening across Europe, which is a descent into fascism.”
Mr Robinson then said she was comparing Mr Farage to “Franco, Mussolini and arguably Hitler”.
She replied: “I have legitimate concerns about what a Nigel Farage government would do to trade unionists, to working-class communities, to minority communities, to LGBT people.
“And what I’ve seen in government is Nigel Farage and his colleagues, like I said, vote against trade union rights, vote against anything that would actually help our working-class communities. So yes, he’s a danger.”
Last month, Sir Keir Starmer described Reform’s immigration policy as “racist” after the party said it would scrap rules that allowed migrants to stay in Britain after a set period of time.
Mr Farage had not yet responded to her comments.
The MP’s claim comes following several bold statements from Ms Sultana. Last week, she called on Sir Keir Starmer to suspend all diplomatic relations with Israel and withdraw the UK from NATO.
In a tweet, she wrote: “NATO isn’t about ‘peace’ or ‘security’. It’s an imperialist war machine. Just look at Afghanistan and Libya… We must withdraw from NATO immediately.”
In the past, Ms Sultana also claimed that “Putin is a dictator and a gangster” but “Zelensky isn’t a friend of the working class either”.
