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Sky News reports:
Nigel Farage says he is “dismayed” after a Reform UK campaigner was filmed saying the Army should “just shoot” migrants crossing the Channel. Party activist Andrew Parker was captured by an undercover Channel 4 reporter posing as a fellow canvasser in Clacton, Essex, where leader Mr Farage is a candidate.
Mr Parker also used a racial slur to describe Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Another activist in the report referred to an LGBT Pride flag on a police car as “degenerate”. The report shows Mr Parker discussing migrants arriving in small boats in Deal, Kent on the campaign trail.
He says: “Army recruitment – get the young recruits there, with guns, on the f****** beach, target practice. F****** just shoot them.” He also describes Islam as a “disgusting cult”.
The Telegraph reports:
Rishi Sunak has said he is “hurt and angry” after a Reform UK volunteer was filmed calling him a “f—— p—”. Andrew Parker was recorded making the comments by undercover reporters for Channel 4 News.
Several activists who were working in Nigel Farage’s Clacton campaign office were dismissed following the investigation.
On a campaign visit to a school in Teesside, the Prime Minister told broadcasters: “My two daughters have to see and hear Reform people who campaign to Nigel Farage calling me an effing p—. It hurts and it makes me angry, and I think he has some questions to answer.
The BBC reports:
At one point Mr Parker tells voters Reform would be “kicking all the Muslims out of the mosques and turning them into Wetherspoons”. During campaigning, he advises the undercover reporter to use the term “illegal” when discussing immigration, especially when addressing non-white households. Ahead of the publication of the footage, Mr Parker made a statement to Channel 4 claiming “neither Nigel Farage personally or the Reform Party are aware of my personal views on immigration”.
Mr Parker said: “I have never discussed immigration with either Nigel Farage or the Reform Party and that any comments made by me during those recordings are my own personal views on any subject I commented on.I would therefore like to apologise profusely to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party if my personal views have reflected badly on them and brought them into disrepute as this was not my intention.”
In the second video below, a Farage supporter claims that Parker may be “paid actor” planted to discredit the Reform Party. Yeah. The undercover clip was first posted on TikTok.
@c4news We’ve gone undercover inside Nigel Farage’s Reform UK campaign in Clacton and found evidence of anti-migrant rhetoric, homophobia and one canvasser making racist and offensive remarks. #News #ReformUK #Reform #NigelFarage #Politics #GeneralElection #Election #c4news ♬ original sound – Channel 4 News