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Andrea, you're a straight-talking person
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Please help us get to the bottom of this. What does the Reform Party think
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No, it's, as Nigel said, this is about, look, we've got to have these conversations
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It's banned in other countries. And, I mean, just look at how Starmer handled Sarah's question
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She immediately shut it down, which is actually affecting freedom of speech
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And it's right, we have these conversations. I think it was just like my tent comment, actually
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It's about getting it out there, getting people talking about it, and let's have the debate
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I mean, Zia Yusuf said, I do think it's dumb for a party to ask the Prime Minister
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if they would do something the party itself wouldn't do. So, Zia Yusuf, five hours, seems to have no idea
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what the policy is or should be. He's the chairman, isn't he
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No, we're not saying it's the policy. We're saying we need to have the conversation
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and the conversation with the public, what do they want, and that'll help formulate the policy, won't it
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Andrea, isn't this exactly what Kemi Badenoch is doing with the Conservative Party right now
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You ask any Tory shadow minister a question, and they say, well, no, we're having a serious conversation about that
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but they can't give you any answers. Isn't reform falling into exactly the same trap
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as the Conservative Party, saying, you know what? Yeah, no, we should have a serious conversation about that
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but we don't know what our policy is. No but as I said when I defected I joined the Party of the Brave We are having these conversations that the ones that people think about but don often say So no we got to have these debates And then you help formulate
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policy. I mean, it's like myself as mayor, I've said, I'm quite interested in potentially looking
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at having a new town in Lincolnshire. But let's have this debate. Let's discuss whether that's
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what people want. So what is wrong with that approach on some policy areas
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And would you personally like to see a ban on it? What do you reckon? I mean, I'd like to see banning face coverings full stop, to be honest
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I mean, we know that if you wear a crash helmet, you're not allowed to go into a bank without removing it
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And, you know, it is intimidating to some people when you can't see someone's face when you're speaking to them
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So we've got to genuinely have this conversation. To me, it's about the safety aspect
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We don't know who is, you know, wearing this. But again, it's not just about what I think
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it's about having this debate, what Nigel said. Presumably you'd have a carve-out for the 31st of October
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the face-covering ban. Presumably you'd have a carve-out for the 31st of October
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for the face-covering ban. Oh, Halloween. Are you going to criminalise every child wearing a ghost costume
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Oh, come on, children. Godson, come on. He always finds the exception, Andrea
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Andrea Jenkins, thank you very much. Dame Andrea Jenkins, thank you very much. Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, so there you go
