It seems that Nigel Farage has not taken too kindly to all Kemi Badenoch’s talk of ‘cleaning house’. The leader of Reform UK has had his fair share of run-ins with different Tory MPs since being elected to parliament in 2024, even going so far as to call half of them ‘stuffy, boring old bastards’ at a Press Gallery lunch last year. Why don’t you tell us what you really think, eh Nige?

One Honourable Member who has attracted Farage’s particulae ire is Sir Geoffrey Cox, the baritone barrister who sits for Torridge and West Devon. The former Attorney-General has hit the headlines in recent years for his outside earnings – including £75,000 from the Government of Mauritius for legal advice ahead of the handover of the Chagos Islands.

Cox has denied that his paid work in Mauritius concerned the dispute over the overseas territory, and he has continued to take funds from the same source – including more than £11,000 declared from the the Prime Minister’s Office in his most recent entry to the register of Members’ interests. This has enraged Farage who took to X today to write:

The Conservatives claim they have been trying to stop the Chagos deal (even though they started the negotiations). Now we learn Tory MP @Geoffrey_Cox has been advising the Mauritian government! The Tory party are treacherous liars and they cannot be trusted.

Ouch.