{"id":119903,"date":"2025-05-21T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119903\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:35:10","slug":"starmer-makes-fun-of-farage-first-through-the-e-gates-in-france-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119903\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer makes fun of Farage: \u2018First through the e-gates in France\u2019 | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/keir-starmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a> made a jab at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nigel-farage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigel Farage<\/a> during Prime Minister\u2019s Questions on Wednesday (21 May), stating that the Reform UK leader, who is currently holidaying in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a>, was \u201cfirst through the e-gates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage missed a parliamentary debate on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/brexit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brexit<\/a> reset yesterday, where the prime minister presented his new UK-EU deal, with access to e-gates being a crucial part of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Reform UK MP Lee Anderson in the House of Commons, Sir Keir said it was \u201cvery good\u201d to see him standing in for the Clacton MP.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir\u2019s joke on e-gates was met with cheers from the Commons, and he followed the jab with the pun: \u201cNice work if you can get it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer made a jab at Nigel Farage during Prime Minister\u2019s Questions on Wednesday (21 May), stating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114546090084748116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}