Labour calls on Reform’s Matt Goodwin to reject aides’ ‘racist content’

Matt Goodwin has been invited to ‘state clearly that racism and conspiracism like this is not welcome in Reform’. Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian

Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection must distance himself from “racist content” shared by members of his campaign team, the Labour party has said.

In a letter to Matt Goodwin, Lucy Powell, Labour’s deputy leader, said an investigation by the Manchester Mill revealed five separate members who had campaigned with Goodwin had shared racist content online and had expressed support for far-right groups.