Camilla Tominey refused to hold back on GB News after the Liberal Democrat deputy leader branded Nigel Farage a “danger to national security”.
Appearing on the People’s Channel, Daisy Cooper, who is MP for St Albans, took aim at Mr Farage and Reform UK’s alleged links to Russia.
The debate on the relationship between Mr Farage’s party and Moscow had been reignited after a former Welsh Reform leader was jailed for taking Russian bribes.
Nathan Gill was thrown behind bars for 10 years after he was convicted for taking bribes to deliver pro-Kremlin statements and interviews as an Member of the European Parliament.
He was believed to have accepted up to £40,000.
But Camilla criticised Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey for “banging on about it in the House of Commons” on Budget day.
Ms Cooper responded: “What we’re saying is there is a really serious problem of Russian meddling in our democracy, and we put pressure on the Prime Minister to call an investigation into Russian interference in our democracy as a whole.
“Absolutely not just Reform. Absolutely not. We believe it’s the Prime Minister’s duty to hold an investigation.
“To quote Davey in the House, a traitor was at the very top of Reform UK aiding and abetting a foreign adversary. Nigel Farage and his party are a danger to national security.”
Daisy Cooper demanded the Prime Minister hold a full investigation into Russian links
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Ms Cooper said her evidence for such a claim was backed up by Gill’s imprisonment, to which Camilla highlighted that the convict did not belong to Reform anymore.
“So why are Nigel Farage and his party now a danger to national security?” the People’s Channel presenter quizzed.
“By implication, you’re saying that they’re also being paid by Russians? Is that what the Lib Dems are saying?”
Ms Cooper went on to chastise the party for refusing to launch an internal investigation into the matter and “whether there’s anybody else in their party who had links to him”.
Ms Cooper joined Camilla on her show on Sunday
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“We’re all putting pressure on Nigel Farage to investigate this, given that Russia at the moment has invaded Ukraine, they are stealing children, abducting children from Ukraine by interfering in our democracy,” she added.
Applying what Camilla dubbed “Liberal Democrat logic”, the host said Sir Cyril Smith, an MP for Rochdale for 20 years, was found guilty of abusing young boys, a probe should have been launched into the issue.
Ms Cooper was quick to deny the claim, but still insisted: “I think what we would say in any situation is where those things have occurred. There has to be investigations into who knew what and when.”
Despite zoning in on Reform UK and Nigel Farage explicitly, Ms Cooper clarified that a full, comprehensive investigation ought to be held into the wider issue.
“What we are also doing is asking the Prime Minister of this country to launch a second Russia report, to find out the extent of Russian interference in our democracy in any political party,” she finished.
Now, Reform’s brand-new – and recently defected – foreign policy adviser has vowed that his leader is not soft on the Kremlin.
Alan Mendoza, who is staunchly against the Russian despot, told The Sunday Telegraph: “People have gone on comments he made 10, 15 years ago.. I don’t think even then he was a supporter of Putin.”
Mr Mendoza further slammed claims that Reform is “racist, pro-Putin, big state”, slamming critics for capitalising on a “lazy perception” of the rising party without engaging with its big beasts on the matter.
After Gill was found guilty, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called for Reform UK to order an investigation to ascertain “pro-Russian links” within the party in the wake of the sentencing.
But Mr Farage was quick to slap down the idea, arguing that it was “simply not possible” to hold an investigation into the matter 10 years on.