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Farage: I’ve always stood behind Trump
NIGEL Farage boasted in September 2025: “I’m the only figure from… Parliament that has consistently stood behind Trump. I have never wavered in my thoughts or my views for one minute, even when it was an unpopular thing to do.”
So what does “standing behind Trump” mean, on:
MONEY? Trump promised to cut US grocery prices – he hasn’t. But he is slashing taxes for the very wealthiest 1%, while barely helping middle-earners, and making the poor poorer.
HEALTHCARE? Trump is cutting many people’s help with healthcare costs more than their taxes. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has spread misinformation on vaccines, fired advisors, and cut vaccine research and promotion.
OTHER CUTS? To education, housing, transport, science, culture, conservation and more.
SAFETY? Trump is slashing regulations on corporations. He says climate change is a “hoax”.
DEMOCRACY & FREEDOM? Trump has threatened and defied judges over rulings he doesn’t like, targeted law firms and media outlets challenging him, censored universities’ curriculums by holding their funding ransom, and sent troops into US cities.
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Farage attacks NHS and says: If you can pay, you should pay
- Has repeatedly called for end to NHS funding from general taxation
- Warnings of “two-tier system”, “second-rate” care
NIGEL Farage said on Sky News in April 2025: “I do not want [the NHS] funded through general taxation. It doesn’t work. It’s not working.” Despite backtracking months later, Farage is on the record with similar comments back to 2012, when he said: “I think we’re going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare.”
He said in 2024: “The funding of the NHS is a total failure. The French do it much better with less funding. There is a lesson there. If you can afford it, you pay; if you can’t, you don’t.”
In reality, expenditure in the French healthcare system is 21% higher per person than in the UK system. The independent Nuffield Trust say there is no magic fix without more investment.
In France, patients generally have to pay out of pocket for appointments and treatments, then claim reimbursement: usually 70% from the state and the rest from mandatory insurance.
Such processes add more costly, frustrating bureaucracy. 30% of US healthcare spending goes on administration.
Economist Richard Murphy warned Farage would implement a two-tier system where “the rich buy the best cover, others get a second-rate service”. The Nuffield Trust warned private insurers will try every trick to avoid covering those with serious risk factors.
83% of the UK public support keeping the NHS funded by general taxation, found the Health Foundation in September 2025.
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Farage’s No2: Slash public spending by 5x more than Truss’s plan
NIGEL Farage’s deputy has called for spending cuts equal to £274bn a year – more than five times the Truss government’s unfunded, turmoil-inducing plan.
Multimillionaire Richard Tice called for Government spending to fall from 45% of GDP to just 35%. Cuts on this scale would roughly equal the entire public funding of the NHS (£188.5bn a year), PLUS the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, AND the Ministry of Justice.
Christina McAnea of UNISON said in 2023: “[We have] the longest NHS waiting lists in history, huge cuts to police forces and councils going bust. Care services are unable to deliver… Inmates are escaping overcrowded prisons and unsafe schools are crumbling. Britain is broken. When spending is slashed, services crumble.”
A study by London School of Economics found that 190,000 excess deaths in the UK were directly linked to austerity cuts between 2010 and 2019.
