Row breaks out between Tories and Reform at Piddington news conference – UK politics live

United front is short-lived as Zia Yusuf and Chris Philp bicker in front of residents and cameras

Here is footage of the extraordinary scenes as Reform's Zia Yusuf and the Tories' Chris Philip descended into bickering with one another, during a news conference in which they were suppose to be putting on a united front:

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