Farage to launch party manifesto on Monday in traditional Labour stronghold of Merthyr Tydfil
Nigel Farage suggested Reform UK had been let down by a professional vetting company this morning as he dealt with questions about the latest example of someone with a history of expressing extremist views being selected as a candidate. He was responding to the news that Grant StClair-Armstrong has resigned from the party after it was discovered he had previously encouraged people to vote for the far-right British National party.
But StClair-Armstrong remains on the ballot paper as the Reform UK candidate in North West Essex, where the business secretary Kemi Badenoch is defending her seat. Daniel Lavelle has the story, which was broken by the Times. Asked about StClair-Armstrong, Farage told the Today programme: This particular case is a chap in his 70s, who 20 years ago said he was thinking of voting BNP as a protest vote, he was never a member of the BNP. However, we don’t find that acceptable.
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