A Cabinet Minister Has Branded Nigel Farage Racist Over His Immigration Plans

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68daae33180000ee485d0814.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Reform UK leader Nigel Farage." data-caption="Reform UK leader Nigel Farage." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>A cabinet minister has branded <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/nigel-farage/">Nigel Farage </a>a racist over a <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/reform-uk/">Reform </a>plan which could see immigrants being deported even if they have lived in the UK for decades.</p><p>Labour deputy leadership hopeful and education secretary <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/bridget-phillipson/">Bridget Phillipson</a> comments are the most outspoken attack yet on Farage by a senior party figure.</p><p>They come a day after Keir Starmer <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-starmer-blasts-nigel-farages-racist-plan-to-deport-migrants-who-have-lived-in-uk-for-years_uk_68d8f01ae4b040e2851e4fa5">said Reform’s immigration plans were “racist and immoral”</a>.</p><p>However, he stopped short of saying the party was trying to appeal to racist voters.</p><p>Speaking on the News Agents podcast at the Labour conference in Liverpool, presenter John Sopel asked Phillipson: “Would you say Nigel Farage is racist?”</p><p>She replied: “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that because many of the things that he does and says, I think, drift into racism, it’s hard to escape that conclusion.”</p><p></p></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-dnt="true" align="center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;