Reform UK drops candidate revealed to have been BNP member

When asked if he had been a member of the BNP, Saint told the Guardian: ‘I don’t wish to discuss it, thank you.’ Photograph: Reform

A Reform UK general election candidate has been dropped after it emerged that he had been on a list of members of the British National party (BNP).

Raymond Saint, a retired owner of a plumbing company, had been standing for the radical right populist party in Basingstoke. A Raymond Saint, at the same address, was recorded as a member of the BNP in a list that was published by WikiLeaks in 2009.