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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kevin Rawlinson and Aneesa Ahmed

Covid, chemtrails and climate: the wild ideas spread by Reform UK candidates

Leader Richard Tice at a Reform UK party press conference.
Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK. A spokesperson said the party is ‘proud to have amongst its candidates people who are not cookie-cutter, careerist politicians’. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Some of the most senior prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) of Reform, the rightwing populist party, have been found to have posted conspiracy theories and other fringe views online. Yet, far from distancing itself, the party has backed them. Here are seven examples:

Trevor Lloyd-Jones – Aldershot

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