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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Reform UK defends candidate over Hitler neutrality comments

Ian Gribbin
Ian Gribbin, the Reform candidate for Bexhill and Battle. The BBC said he apologised for the ‘old comments’. Photograph: Reform UK

Reform UK has defended one of its candidates who said Britain should have “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality”, saying the comments were “probably true”.

The row prompted the Conservatives to directly criticise Ian Gribbin, the party’s candidate in Bexhill and Battle, who was reported to have written on a website’s comment section: “Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people.”

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