By Kevin Schofield
Andrew TateNigel Farage has been accused of being a supporter of controversial online influencer Andrew Tate in a new Labour attack ad.
It comes just weeks after a cabinet minister compared the Reform UK leader to Jimmy Savile and is a further a sign of the government鈥檚 concern at his party鈥檚 popularity.
The attack ad, being launched on Sunday, refers to comments Farage made on the 鈥楽trike It Big鈥 podcast last year.
He told the hosts, who are three male influencers in their 20s, that Tate was 鈥渁n important voice鈥 for many young men.
Farage said: 鈥淵ou three guys, you are all 25, you are all kind of being told you can鈥檛 be blokes, you can鈥檛 do laddish, fun, bloke things 鈥 that masculinity is something we should look down upon, something we should frown upon. It鈥檚 like the men are becoming feminine and the women are becoming masculine and it鈥檚 a bit difficult to tell these days who鈥檚 what.
鈥淎nd Tate fed into that by saying, 鈥楬ang on, what鈥檚 wrong with being a bloke? What鈥檚 wrong in male culture? What鈥檚 wron