Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party speaks at an event in London, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

A cabinet minister has brutally dismissed Nigel Farage’s call for Reform UK to have its own peers in the House of Lords.

The Reform leader has written to Keir Starmer saying it is unfair that his party has no one in the upper chamber despite getting four million votes at the last general election and leading in the opinion polls.

Farage said there was a “democratic disparity” in the Lords because parties like the Greens – which has fewer MPs than Reform – has people in the Lords.

He also pointed out that the Lib Dems, which received fewer votes at the general election than Reform, has 76 peers.

“None of this holds water any longer given the seismic shifts that have taken place........

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