Farage tries to play down Hitler remarks

ALL parties will have controversial General Election candidates, Nigel Farage said, after it emerged that a Reform UK contender had said that Britain should have “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality”.

The Reform UK leader said the short notice at which the election was called meant that his party’s vetting programme had run out of time.

After an announcement yesterday about Reform UK’s economic policy in Westminster, Mr Farage was asked about Ian Gribbin, the party’s candidate in Bexhill and Battle, who has said that Britain should have “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality” instead of fighting the Nazis in the Second World War.