'You Must Be Joking': Billy Bragg Mocks Nigel Farage's Hopes Of Being PM On BBC Question Time

Singer Billy Bragg mocked Nigel Farage’s hopes of becoming prime minister as he clashed with the Reform UK leader’s deputy on BBC Question Time.

The singer-songwriter took aim at Farage over comments he made this week on autism and the prevalence of Sharia Law in the UK.

Appearing on LBC, Farage had refused to distance himself from Donald Trump’s evidence-free claims that taking paracetamol in pregnancy can cause autism, insisting he was not a scientific expert.

But in the same interview, he said he believed Sharia Law was being introduced to the UK because he had been told so by a taxi driver.

Bragg said: “After giving the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, he later said when he was asked by he believed that Sharia Law was coming to Britain, he said he’d been told by a taxi driver.

“So he was willing to believe a Muslim taxi driver in Buckinghamshire rather than believe the scientific establishment. This guy wants to be prime minister? You must be joking.”

As the Question Time audience applauded Bragg’s comments, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice told him: “Billy, there are over 80 Sharia courts in the United Kingdom. Are you aware of that?”

The singer hit back: “Yeah I am, but there are also Jewish courts and that is part of their religion and we, as a tolerant nation, accept that.

“To demonise, particularly the Muslims, this is the sort of thing why we worry about Reform.”