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Kemi Badenoch dismissed a Labour assault advert in opposition to the Tories and Reform UK as “weird”. The picture shared on social media reveals half of her face and half of Reform chief Nigel Farage’s merged collectively.

The accompanying textual content says that the 2 right-wing events are “closer than you think” and urges individuals to vote Labour on the native elections on May 1. The Conservative chief instructed Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips programme: “That’s just weird isn’t it? I mean, look at that, it doesn’t make any sense.

“I feel even simply that image reveals that they are attempting to make an argument that does not work.

“Of course there are huge differences between us and Reform. If there weren’t there wouldn’t be a Reform party.

“What I’m saying now could be that we have to ensure that native individuals perceive that what they’re voting for now isn’t an opinion ballot, however who’s going to run their native companies.

“And if they vote for anything other than Conservative they could end up like Birmingham where there are rats running around and rubbish piling up on the street.”

Host Trevor Phillips described the advert as “distasteful” and “unpleasant” when he requested Labour minister Darren Jones about it.

He mentioned: “It’s distasteful isn’t it?”

Mr Jones replied: “Why?”

Mr Phillips pressed: “I think the overlay of these two people’s faces seems to me unpleasant.”

Mr Jones requested once more: “Why?

The Sky News presenter said: “It simply appears disagreeable to me.”

Mr Jones said: “I feel what it is displaying is you have obtained Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch, the chief of the Reform occasion and the Conservatives, who’re primarily one and the identical factor.”