
Nigel Farage said on Thursday that he was powerless to deselect Reform UK candidates who say that Britain should have done a deal with Hitler or that Islam equates to Nazism.
Challenged about the social media views of some of the people standing as MPs for his party, which is hard on the heels of the Tories in opinion polls, the Brexit figurehead said it was too late to deselect them ahead of the General Election on July 4.