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Nigel Farage made his debut on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! by sticking his head through the window of a campervan filled with snakes and rummaging around in gunk.

The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader was taunted about Brexit before he was chosen by the public to take part in the next bushtucker trial.

He was introduced in the first episode saying: “I’m known for politics, for Brexit, and I’m a hero to some people and an absolute villain to millions.

“In the jungle you’re going to find the real me. You might like me more, you might dislike me more, but you will at least find out.

“The best way to handle conflict is to tackle it head-on. I dealt with snakes in the European Parliament, I can cope with this too.”

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly joked about Farage’s GB News show when they offered an apology to the channel’s viewers for the fact he will not be presenting his programme while he is away in Australia.

“Sorry Keith, sorry Linda,” they said.

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Farage was joined by other celebrities such as food critic Grace Dent and Jamie Lynn Spears, the sister of superstar Britney.

Dressed in green chinos and a pink shirt, Farage and two other campmates – YouTuber Nella Rose and This Morning host Josie Gibson – arrived in the Australian Outback rather than the jungle.

The trio had to complete tasks to win time for campmates taking part in other challenges in a bid to win stars and food, which saw them using their mouths to hunt for tokens inside a campervan full of snakes while unable to use their hands and rummaging around in gunk.

During the trial Farage spoke eagerly about doing “something different in life” and Gibson replied: “It can’t be worse than Brexit.”

“Oh… didn’t take long did it?” Mr Farage said. “Didn’t take long. I had a feeling we’d get a bit of that.”

When the celebrities gathered in the jungle camp they had a full meal of kangaroo hide after collecting 10 stars between them.

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At the end of the first episode Ant and Dec broke the news that the public had voted for Farage and Rose to complete the next bushtucker trial, entitled Jungle Pizzeria.

Farage did not appear to be surprised by the news.

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Heidi Alexander says ‘fairness’ will be government’s ‘guiding principle’ when it comes to taxes at next budget

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Heidi Alexander says 'fairness' will be government's 'guiding principle' when it comes to taxes at next budget

Another hint that tax rises are coming in this autumn’s budget has been given by a senior minister.

Speaking to Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander was asked if Sir Keir Starmer and the rest of the cabinet had discussed hiking taxes in the wake of the government’s failed welfare reforms, which were shot down by their own MPs.

Trevor Phillips asked specifically if tax rises were discussed among the cabinet last week – including on an away day on Friday.

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Tax increases were not discussed “directly”, Ms Alexander said, but ministers were “cognisant” of the challenges facing them.

Asked what this means, Ms Alexander added: “I think your viewers would be surprised if we didn’t recognise that at the budget, the chancellor will need to look at the OBR forecast that is given to her and will make decisions in line with the fiscal rules that she has set out.

“We made a commitment in our manifesto not to be putting up taxes on people on modest incomes, working people. We have stuck to that.”

Ms Alexander said she wouldn’t comment directly on taxes and the budget at this point, adding: “So, the chancellor will set her budget. I’m not going to sit in a TV studio today and speculate on what the contents of that budget might be.

“When it comes to taxation, fairness is going to be our guiding principle.”

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Afterwards, shadow home secretary Chris Philp told Phillips: “That sounds to me like a barely disguised reference to tax rises coming in the autumn.”

He then went on to repeat the Conservative attack lines that Labour are “crashing the economy”.

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Chris Philp also criticsed the government’s migration deal with France

Mr Philp then attacked the prime minister as “weak” for being unable to get his welfare reforms through the Commons.

Discussions about potential tax rises have come to the fore after the government had to gut its welfare reforms.

Sir Keir had wanted to change Personal Independence Payments (PIP), but a large Labour rebellion forced him to axe the changes.

With the savings from these proposed changes – around £5bn – already worked into the government’s sums, they will now need to find the money somewhere else.

The general belief is that this will take the form of tax rises, rather than spending cuts, with more money needed for military spending commitments, as well as other areas of priority for the government, such as the NHS.

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