Annoyed Clacton resident tells Farage he's ignoring town - before Reform leader forgets his name
Appearing on Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on LBC on Thursday (3 July), the Reform UK leader was taking questions from callers when he received a telling-off from listener Jamie.
Jamie claimed that many Clacton residents' queries have gone ignored by Mr Farage, before asking him directly "how much time do you spend per week on constituency matters and how many emails do you answer?"
The Reform UK leader began to list off his upcoming plans to be in Clacton before addressing Jamie as 'Kevin', which Mr Ferrari stepped in to correct.
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