Kemi Badenoch Slammed By White House Over Farage Chagos Islands Row

The Tory leader hit out at the Reform UK leader over comments he made on a US podcast.

Kemi Badenoch has been condemned by the White House after she hit out at Nigel Farage over comments he made about the Chagos Islands on a US podcast.

The Reform UK leader appeared to suggest he would hand the British overseas territory to America in return for Donald Trump remaining silent about the future of the Falkland Islands.

Badenoch said that was “loose talk from a man who wants to be responsible for Britain’s national security”.

But in an extraordinary intervention, a White House official accused the Tory leader of “peddling fake news and undermining the Anglo-American relationship”.

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