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Reform UK candidate defects to Conservatives over racist remarks
Decision by Georgie David is fresh blow for rightwing party facing backlash over activists’ commentsUnited Kingdom -
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Reform UK candidate defects to Conservatives over racist remarks
Decision by Georgie David is fresh blow for rightwing party facing backlash over activists’ commentsUnited Kingdom -
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Reform drops three candidates but says people should still vote for them
The candidates will still appear on the ballot paper as it is too late to remove them. -
The Guardian - World
Nigel Farage ‘has questions to answer’ over Reform racism, says Rishi Sunak
Essex police say they are ‘urgently assessing’ racist and homophobic remarks made by party’s volunteers. UK election live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has said he was hurt and angry to hear a Reform UK canvasser using a racial slur against him, ... -
The Guardian - World
General election live: Farage says he is boycotting BBC as more Reform candidates dropped over past comments
The Reform leader complained of a ‘dishonest Question Time audience’, while his party also reported Channel 4 to the Electoral Commission. The Conservative party deputy chair Angela Richardson called the sewage crisis a “political football” and ... -
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Tory candidate was trustee of church that ‘endorsed’ conversion therapy
A report finds St Thomas Philadelphia church in Sheffield had "supported" conversion therapy. -
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Farage on Reform's candidate controversies and immigration policy
The party's leader was asked on BBC Question Time about the selection of candidates for his party, and role of immigration in the UK. -
Financial Times - Business
‘You see it in people’s faces’: out on the doorsteps with a Tory candidate
Battling to hold on to the swing seat of Bolton West, Chris Green feels the effects of his party’s stuttering national campaign -
The Guardian - World
At least 30 Reform candidates have cast doubt on human-induced global heating
Exclusive: Analysis of social media posts, including by candidates projected to win seats, finds multiple mentions of ‘hoaxes’ and ‘the Illuminati’. At least 30 Reform UK candidates have posted material or made statements that cast doubt on the ...
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