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Reform faces criticism after councillors filmed making racist comments
Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language.
Reform UK has said "there is no room for racism" in its party after ITV News broadcast undercover filming, gathered over a year, of some of its councillors and candidates using racist, violent and sexist language.
In the film, Undercover: A Year in Reform,, external a Reform councillor and deputy mayor of Solihull is recorded calling Asian homeowners "parasites".
Labour described the investigation as "truly sickening" adding: "Nigel Farage can't shrug these latest revelations off as being a few bad apples."
A Reform spokesman said: "Where members, activists and councillors have clearly behaved inappropriately, investigations have commenced" and that in some cases there had been suspensions.
The spokesman added that the party had improved its procedures but some individuals who did not share their values would occasionally make it through vetting.
ITV's filming involved eight figures in Reform – the BBC does not know how many it spoke to in total.
Reform says the people filmed by ITV are all under investigation, and have already either resigned or been suspended.
ITV News says it had reporters undercover with Reform UK candidates and councillors across England and Wales running up to the elections in May and four by-election campaigns this year and last.
These reporters joined a Reform councillor, Alan Feeney, in Solihull, in the West Midlands, where he was campaigning to retain his seat on the council, having defected from the Conservative Party in 2025.