Priti Patel dancing with Nigel Farage at Conservative Party Conference is giving people nightmares | indy100

Priti Patel dances with Nigel Farage at Conservative Party conference

Emily Hewertson

Rest assured, there’s always a party at the Conservative Party Conference which results in an absolutely cursed social media video - whether it be former health secretary Matt Hancock’s rendition of 'Don’t Stop Me Now', environment secretary Thérèse Coffey singing '(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life' after Universal Credit cuts, or ex-home secretary Priti Patel dancing with GB News host Nigel Farage.

Taking place in Manchester – a city reportedly set to be deprived of HS2 links as Tory leader Rishi Sunak plans to scrap the northern leg of the high-speed rail project – this year’s conference has already involved a social event put on by the crisis-stricken broadcaster, GB News.

Three of the channel’s contributors (Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson) are currently suspended after Fox made degrading comments about PoliticsJOE journalist Ava Evans last month.

The scandal went on to spark yet another Ofcom investigation into the broadcaster.

Despite this, Ms Patel – who told the Conservative Democratic Organisation on Sunday that GB News was “the newest, most successful, most dynamic, no-nonsense news station” – was more than happy to dance alongside Mr Farage.

The Witham MP, who issued an “unreserved apology” back in 2020 after a report found she bullied Home Office staff, was even filmed on stage singing along to Robbie Williams’ 'Angels'.

Ironic, some might say.

And in another clip doing the rounds on social media, she was seen dancing next to Mr Farage to the tune of 'Can’t Take My Eyes Off You' by Frankie Valli.

Sadly, it seems many X (formerly Twitter) users couldn’t take their eyes off the footage:

[twitter_embed https://twitter.com/The_ChrisShaw/statuses/1709115232432378226 text="The Tory Party Conference, summarised in one dance by Patel and Farage.\n\n"Can't Take My Eyes Off UKIP..."\n\n#CPC23 #CPC2023 #r4today" name="Chris Shaw" screen_name="The_ChrisShaw" id="1709115232432378226" created_ts=1696319799 iframe_id="twitter-embed-1709115232432378226" expand=1 embed_desktop_width=550 embed_desktop_height=873 embed_mobile_width=375 embed_mobile_height=722]

I can't see anyone having a problem with Prit Patel and Nigel Farage dancing to that song from The Deer Hunter... not at all.\n#NigelFarage
— Craig Duncan | \ud835\udd4f /Fludded (@Craig Duncan | \ud835\udd4f /Fludded) 1696289307

Patel dancing with Farage tells us everything we need to know about the Tories.\n#r4today
— QueryingScouser (@QueryingScouser) 1696315809

When it comes to summing up what\u2019s going on at the Conservative Party conference, phone footage of Priti Patel and Nigel Farage dancing and singing along to \u2018Can't Take My Eyes Off You\u2019 could hardly be more on point.
— Nicholas Pegg (@Nicholas Pegg) 1696316465

[twitter_embed https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/statuses/1709113669219483715 text="Left: Lewis Goodall, "You could have been at a UKIP or Brexit party conference"\n\nRight: Priti Patel and Nigel Farage dancing at #CPC23" name="Farrukh" screen_name="implausibleblog" id="1709113669219483715" created_ts=1696319427 iframe_id="twitter-embed-1709113669219483715" expand=1 embed_desktop_width=550 embed_desktop_height=600 embed_mobile_width=375 embed_mobile_height=550]

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