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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Reform MP’s remarks about TV adverts were ‘racist’, says Wes Streeting

Nigel Farage and Sarah Pochin hold a union flag as they celebrate Reform UK's victory in the Runcorn byelection in May 2025
Sarah Pochin, pictured with the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, said seeing adverts full of black and Asian people ‘drives her mad’. Photograph: Lia Toby/Getty Images

Wes Streeting has accused the Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin of making racist remarks after she said seeing adverts full of black and Asian people “drives her mad”.

The health secretary said Pochin was “only sorry she’s been caught and called out”, adding she had “said the quiet bit loud”, as he warned of a return to “1970s, 1980s-style racism”.

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