Bridget Phillipson

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.

The extreme racism and appalling behaviour exposed by this investigation is truly sickening.

This isn’t an issue of party politics; it’s about doing what is right, and upholding the values anyone holding public office should share.

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.

You can find more whitewash in this report than at your local B&Q. Nothing in it exonerates Reform or Nigel Farage from the serious allegations that they still face. They can’t run from the truth forever.

Nothing in it exonerates Reform or Nigel Farage from the serious allegations that they still face.

Kemi Badenoch is the latest in a long line of failed Tory leaders who are determined to see workers made worse off.

It is shameful to vote against a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine and to condemn the vast majority of British Jews and Jews around the world as racist for supporting Israel’s right to exist.

Kemi Badenoch's Tories held young people back and caused the welfare bill to spiral. To pretend she's suddenly on the side of young people is frankly insulting.

We live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days.

The way that the Tories and Reform have approached this issue is all too often about political point-scoring. They’re not serious about taking the action that’s needed to protect women.

I want all women to be able to lead the lives that they want to live without fear of intimidation or abuse.

Women's safety is a national emergency, but that has to mean all women, because you know we live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days, and the safety of women is of the utmost importance.

I think we are seeing a weaponisation of violence against women and girls by parts of the right that I don't believe will challenge the attitudes that we're seeing, or will lead to women feeling safer – and that is my focus.

It should be their hard work and their talent that takes them where they need to be.

A lot of what happened in that period was that there was a total failure to listen to women, to believe women – especially working class girls who were reporting unimaginable abuse but weren't taken seriously.

I think it just says more about Kemi Badenoch than anybody else that she chooses to really reduce the debate to the level of name-calling.

I remain a proud spiteful class warrior addressing the long standing inequalities.

The Reform UK council’s decision is being exposed for what it is – misguided, cruel and in no way backed by the people of Sunderland.

There has been a squeamishness in talking about class and it was a big area that's been missing in policy formation.

This decision marks a pivotal step in embedding a focus on socio-economic inequality into the heart of government.

Farage needs to wake up and realise the buck stops with him.

Generations had been robbed of opportunity