Summary
Two far-right leaders, David Clews and Mark Collett, are planning to influence Reform UK by encouraging supporters to join the party and promote their extremist views. Reform UK has stated that their party will not welcome far-right individuals and has a strict process to prevent this.
Key Facts
- David Clews and Mark Collett plan to infiltrate Reform UK to promote far-right views.
- Clews claims that sympathizers are already inside Reform, but he provided no evidence.
- Reform UK has a strict vetting process to keep far-right individuals out.
- Clews says infiltrators are hard to detect because they have no public ties to far-right groups.
- Clews and Collett signed a declaration to push Reform UK further to the right.
- They encourage supporters to join Reform and run for political offices.
- Some members of Collett's group, Patriotic Alternative, have been convicted of hate crimes.
- The infiltration plan was exposed by the Labour Against Antisemitism campaign group.
