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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
