Multiple outlets report that former UK Cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe, who died aged 78, recorded and gave interviews in which she defended Nigel Farage ahead of his re-election campaign. The Independent and Evening Standard say her final recorded television appearance includes support for Farage’s re-election bid in Clacton, with Widdecombe describing it as “the right course to take.” Evening Standard also reports she remarks on politics as a “game of personal destruction.”
The Mirror and Daily Mail add timing details about when her last interview was recorded. They report she ended a previously unheard recording at about 12.10pm last Wednesday and that police believe she died at around 12.30pm, with her body found the following day in her kitchen at her home in Haytor, Devon. The Daily Mail further reports that her last interview for Christian radio station TWR-UK was recorded between 12pm and 12.10pm, shortly before her death.
Taken together, the reports describe Widdecombe’s final interviews and police-estimated timeline in the period shortly before her death, including her public defence of Farage.
