Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail

Ryan Bridge asking a question of Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, at the party’s conference in Birmingham on Saturday. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

The leader of a flag campaign group who was arrested on suspicion of causing religiously and racially aggravated harassment was given access to Reform UK’s annual conference.

Ryan Bridge, whose Raise the Colours group has put up hundreds of union and St George flags across England, told the Guardian he was invited to the conference.