Reform candidate in Essex posted “transparent antisemitism”

There are 28 seats where the UK’s Reform Party is polling above 20 per cent and may threaten Tory hopes. One of them is Clacton, the Essex constituency where Nigel Farage, the party’s honorary chair, has so far declined to stand as an MP. The Reform candidate is Tony Mack, a psychotherapist and former black cab driver whose campaign literature has promised to fix “woke ideology” and “discrimination against the people of Britain in favour of foreign arrivals or minorities”. In December, Mack posted on Twitter that Muslims were “backward, maladjusted and taught hate through Islam”. More recently he wrote that “secular or moderate Muslim is an oxymoron”. A Reform spokesperson told Tortoise Mack’s comments about Muslims were “strong” and that the party was looking into the candidate.