Bridget Phillipson: “I joined our party as a teenager and saw first hand the difference a Labour government makes,”

We have asked local Green groups to respond as a matter of urgency. Where they are unable to provide that assurance, Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end.

Every Reform councillor, council candidate or party member found to have made such despicable comments must be thrown out of Reform UK immediately.

Nigel Farage can’t shrug these latest revelations off as being a few bad apples.

It’s clear that Farage and his party are determined to poison our politics and threaten the shared British values Labour will always proudly defend.