Farage claims Reform councillors were 'provoked' by undercover reporters after sting exposes calls to behead King
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's councillors were provoked into making racist and violent remarks after ITV secretly filmed eight of them calling black children 'animals', Muslims 'parasites', and suggesting King Charles should be beheaded for being 'a secret Muslim'. Farage blamed an 'establishment' conspiracy, saying no expensive undercover probe would ever target other parties. Three councillors have quit the party; others have been suspended pending investigation.
Bromley councillor Dean Miller resigned after allegedly saying London had been 'ethnically cleansed' and that the King had 'betrayed' the country and should be beheaded.
Solihull deputy mayor Alan Feeney was filmed calling for no more than 1% of Britain's population to be non-white and saying Asian people should be 'dragged out of their homes' and deported to Pakistan.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham demanded Reform take 'immediate and firm action', while Farage insisted: 'You can't vet against what somebody might say in the future, especially if they're provoked.'