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A UKIP councillor expelled after her racist views were caught on camera and a local chairman who defends his National Front (NF) past were among the “stars” last night of a fly-on-the-wall show.
The BBC exposé, centred on leader Nigel Farage’s South Thanet target seat, lands another damaging blow to a party that has been dogged with scandals linked to far-right and racist views.
TV crews outed Thanet councillor Rozanne Duncan after she was filmed explaining that “the only people I have problems with are negroes.”
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL