Reform councillor resigns from two councils after being filmed calling Asian families 'parasites'

Alan Feeney, who sat on both Solihull and Birmingham City councils, has quit all his posts and apologised after ITV undercover footage caught him describing an area as "infested" with Asian families and calling them "absolute parasites". Feeney also said no more than 1% of the UK population should be non-white. The Ministry of Justice called his comments "despicable" and suspended him from his job as a custodial manager in the prison service. He is one of several Reform figures caught on camera in the ITV documentary 'Undercover: A Year in Reform', whose full 90-minute broadcast is due on Sunday.

Reform's Robert Jenrick compared the party's vetting failure to BBC paedophile presenter scandals, saying no process could be 'fool-safe'.

Other footage in the documentary shows a councillor saying King Charles should be beheaded for being 'a Muslim', and black children described as 'animals'.

Labour chair Bridget Phillipson said Farage 'can't shrug these latest revelations off as being a few bad apples' and demanded all those filmed be thrown out immediately.