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How Farage hijacked the Mail to make fake news

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How Farage hijacked the Mail to make fake news

Nigel Farage seemingly turned a Daily Mail front page encouraging people not to vote for him into endorsement, all by using some trickery.

“Walking past the newsstands, that’s all people see. Thank you Daily Mail, thank you for your support”, the Reform UK leader told the camera while holding up a headline that reads: “Vote Farage”.

However, the page was folded in two, eliminating the rest of the headline, which read in full: “Vote Farage, get them”, alongside a photo of Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer.

The real front page implied that a vote for Reform UK, was actually a vote for Labour.

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