Farage claims Reform candidates making racist jokes were 'provoked' by undercover reporters working for the establishment
Reform UK councillors and candidates caught on camera by ITV, whose year-long undercover operation found members calling for Asian families to be forcibly removed to Pakistan and black children to be "animals.Bromley councillor Dean Miller, caught on camera during ITV's undercover operation, called for King Charles to be beheaded, claiming the King is a Muslim.Reform's deputy mayor of Solihull, Alan Feeney, was filmed stating "no more than 1% of the British population can be non-white" and describing his own canvassing as "Alan's racist canvassing".Alan Feeney, whose remarks prompted three resignations across Reform UK, with the party accusing ITV of "extreme methods of deception" while conceding there is "no room for racism" in its ranks.Nigel Farage declined to apologise, arguing journalists had "provoked" the remarks by targeting Reform "because the establishment frankly want us out of the picture.Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who refused to apologise for the ITV footage showing eight of his councillors and candidates making racist remarks, claiming comparable findings would emerge from other parties under…
Nigel Farage has insisted Reform UK's vetting is not at fault after an ITV undercover investigation caught councillors and candidates on camera making racist, sexist and violent remarks — including suggesting the King should be beheaded for being a "secret Muslim". Farage argued the people filmed had been "provoked in conversation" by reporters, and accused the "establishment" of targeting Reform in a way no other party faces. Separately, fresh footage from ITV shows Farage himself pushing back against senior advisers urging him to sack mayoral candidate Chris Parry, a retired rear admiral accused of telling David Lammy to "go home to the Caribbean". Reform's head of communications Ed Sumner was filmed calling Parry "clearly a racist" months before the party eventually suspended him.
Reform MP Sarah Pochin is also heard in the footage complaining that male party officials are "so f***ing chauvinistic" and exclude women.
Solihull deputy mayor Alan Feeney, caught on film saying the UK population should be no more than 1% non-white, has been suspended from his job as a custodial manager at HMP Birmingham.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham demanded Reform take "immediate and firm action", saying: 'We've allowed a poison into our politics in recent years, and it's time to draw a line under it.'
