Nigel Farage's BBC Panorama grilling has been delayed from contiguous owed to a diary mix-up.
The Reform person had been owed to look disconnected with presenter Nick Robinson arsenic portion of the predetermination campaign.
The programme was acceptable to aerial astatine 10.40pm, but has present been postponed to a aboriginal date.
Sources insisted Mr Farage would inactive beryllium doing the interview. The BBC One docket present includes Tokyo Vice instead.
The Brexit champion's determination to instrumentality to the frontline - and basal arsenic a MP successful Clacton - has acceptable occurrence to the campaign, and threatened to thrown the Tories into a tailspin.
Polls person been showing Reform closing connected the Conservatives successful presumption of support, with fears mounting astir a 'crossover moment'.
Mr Farage has already taken portion successful a BBC seven-way statement wherever helium was seen arsenic having outperformed Penny Mordaunt and Angela Rayner.
The erstwhile MEP was the shade astatine the feast during Rishi Sunak's ain Panorama clash yesterday.
Nigel Farage had been owed to look disconnected with presenter Nick Robinson successful the coming hours arsenic portion of the predetermination campaign
The erstwhile MEP was the shade astatine the feast during Rishi Sunak's ain Panorama clash yesterday
Robinson jibed that Mr Sunak was the governmental equivalent of a 'quinoa salad' compared to Mr Farage's 'Sunday roast with each the trimmings'.
But the premier argued that 'there's lone going to beryllium 1 of 2 radical who's premier minister'.
'A ballot for anyone who's not a Conservative campaigner is conscionable making it much apt that Keir Starmer is that person,' helium said.
'So if you inquire someone, you say, you know, what makes a Conservative, if you are idiosyncratic who wants little taxes, if you privation your pension protected, if you privation migration reduced, if you privation a sensible attack to Net Zero that prioritises our information and reducing people's bills, that's what I volition connection you successful this election.'
The premier was besides pressed connected his effect to an alleged 'dog whistle' onslaught from Mr Farage, who suggested the D-Day bungle showed the PM did not recognize 'our culture'.
'Is helium playing with occurrence by bringing your practice into this argument?' Robinson asked.
Mr Sunak replied: 'Well Nigel Farage tin reply what helium precisely meant by those comments.
'I'm not going to get progressive successful that due to the fact that I don't deliberation it's bully for our state oregon bully for our politics. Now evidently I disagree with him and erstwhile it comes, specifically, to our Armed Forces, again radical tin justice maine by my actions.'
Robinson posted connected societal media contiguous that Mr Farage's interrogation was 'to follow'
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