Kemi Badenoch warns 'racist attacks' will not work after a former Farage aide called her a 'Nigerian scammer'

Raheem Kassam, a former aide to Nigel Farage, branded Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer" in a series of social media posts, also telling followers not to "give her your credit card number." Badenoch fired back on ITV's 'Good Morning Britain', accusing Reform of thinking "using my race is a way for them to improve their standing." She insisted Britain is not a racist country and the attacks would fail.

Reform defector Robert Jenrick refused to condemn the posts, telling GMB: 'I don't think they were racist.'

Badenoch dismissed Jenrick's failure to act, saying: 'He's not my problem anymore — he's Nigel Farage's problem.'

She urged former Tory voters to 'come home', accusing Reform of spending their time attacking her rather than improving people's lives.