A Reform UK candidate has been forced to apologise after suggesting the country would have been “far better” off if it had “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality” during the Second World War.
Reform UK candidate, Ian Gribbin, who is representing the party in Bexhill and Battle, made the shocking claims in a 2022 online post on Unherd magazine.In addition to suggesting that the UK should not have fought the Nazis, further comments made by Gribbin labelled Winston Churchill "abysmal", praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and labelled women a "sponging gender" who should be "deprived of health care".
"I myself am upset at the way these comments were taken out of context especially when my mother was the daughter of Russian Jews fleeing persecution.
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