Nigel Farage Skewered By Susanna Reid Over Reform Candidates
Nigel Farage was called out repeatedly by presenter Susanna Reid on Tuesday over the Reform Party’s controversial list of candidates. Since launching its election campaign, Farage’s populist party has been forced to drop multiple candidates as offensive comments online resurfaced. Only on Monday, candidate Grant StClair-Armstrong had to quit after it was revealed he had previously endorsed the British National Party (BNP). And on Tuesday, Reid mentioned another, more widespread, issue with Reform candidates’ online presence. In a Good Morning Britain interview with Farage, she said: “You’ve defended 41 [Reform candidates] found to be social media friends of a fascist leader, a former organiser for the British National Party, who founded the new British union in the image of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.” Nearly one in 10 Reform candidates standing in England are reportedly “friends” with fascist leader Gary Raikes. Farage initially seemed lost for words, but then said: “I didn’t even know the bloke until last Thursday! “People put stuff on Facebook and they like a comment, they have no idea who …