Reform candidate filmed saying asylum seekers should be put in ‘concentration camps’

Speaking earlier in the week, Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, said that while his party carries out vetting, ‘you can’t vet people for what they say in the future’. Photograph: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy

A would-be Reform UK MP told an undercover reporter that Muslims could not be British and asylum seekers should be put in “concentration camps”.

The comments were recorded as part of the undercover investigation by ITV that has already seen Reform accused of “appalling behaviour” and “extreme racism”.