Reform man 'not a racist'

A Reform UK campaigner who was caught on camera calling Rishi Sunak a racial slur has apologised for his remarks but insisted he was “goaded” into making them.

Andrew Parker said “of course” he regrets the language he used, but claimed it was just “typical chaps-down-the-pub talk” in “the heat of the moment”.

Mr Parker was recorded by an undercover Channel 4 reporter saying that migrants crossing the English Channel should be used as “target practice” and using an offensive term to refer to the Prime Minister.

Party leader Nigel Farage subsequently used reports that the canvasser was a part-time actor to suggest the “whole episode does not add up”.

Mr Farage has sought to distance himself from the comments, saying he was “dismayed” by the “appalling sentiments” expressed.