Reform MP Lee Anderson has furiously hit out at GB News guest Scarlett MccGwire over her claims on the People’s Channel about people who back his party.
Speaking to Dawn Neesom and Henry Bolton, MccGwire said the party is inherently ‘anti-Muslim’ and therefore has a tendency to attract ‘racist’ voices.
The claim was put to Lee as he spoke to Tom Harwood from the party’s conference in Birmingham.
“What a load of nonsense”, he fumed.
Lee Anderson furiously hit out at Scarlett MccGwire
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“I don’t know why you have her on, to be honest. She has no proof. Ask her what the proof is.
“It’s a lazy argument to have a go at me and Nigel [Farage] and the rest of the Reform party, they have absolutely no proof whatsoever.
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“They should get a grip.”
Tom then said a racism row has ‘dogged’ the party with extremist candidates slipping through the cracks after not being properly vetted.
“We are a startup party”, he responded.
“We have seen 4,000 members from across the country come into one building to celebrate the success of Reform. This country needs Reform.
Lee Anderson spoke to Tom Harwood on GB News
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“I want Scarlett to produce some proof that Reform or Nigel or myself are racist.”
MccGwire had earlier in the programme been outlining her concerns about the populist party, claiming it is guilty of promoting a non-inclusive rhetoric.
“One of the problems that I find on Nigel Farage’s programme is the inherent anti-Muslim bias”, she said.
“That’s what worries me about Reform. There’s a lot of, ‘these people are very difficult’, that means that on the ground, you have to be very careful about who you’re working with.
Nigel Farage speaking at the Reform party conferenceGB News“I don’t particularly want Reform to be successful but what I really don’t want is them to be going about picking up a load of racists.”
“I don’t particularly want Reform to be successful but what I really don’t want is them to be going about picking up a load of racists.”
It comes after party leader Nigel Farage promised Reform UK will be “vetting candidates rigorously at all levels” in future during his keynote speech at the conference.
He addressed crowds in Birmingham where he said the party has not got “time” or “room” for “a few extremists to wreck the work of a party that now has 80,000 members”.