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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Reform candidate in Wales steps down after apparent Nazi salute

Still of Corey Edwards smiling as he appears to raise his right arm in salute, with a finger of his left hand under his nose
The photograph of Edwards, an ex-adviser to a Conservative Welsh secretary, was published on the Nation.Cymru website. Photograph: Nation.Cymru

A Reform UK candidate for the Welsh Senedd elections in May has announced he is standing down because of his mental health, after a photograph emerged of him apparently making a Nazi salute as an imitation of Adolf Hitler.

The announcement by Reform comes a day after Nigel Farage defended Corey Edwards, its lead candidate for the Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg constituency, saying he may have instead been impersonating the John Cleese character Basil Fawlty.

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