The Reform Party has accepted the resignation of one of its election candidates after 'unacceptable historic social media comments' came to light. Grant StClair-Armstrong, who was standing in Saffron Walden, the Essex constituency where Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch was the most recent MP, tendered his resignation following reports in The Times that he had previously called on people to vote for the British National Party .
Last week another Reform candidate apologised for an old internet post which said Britain should have 'taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality' instead of fighting the Nazis in the Second World War. Ian Gribbin, who is standing in the East Sussex seat of Bexhill and Battle, told Sky News that he apologised and withdrew the comments 'unreservedly'.