Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Makerfield by-election said that Russia was “within their rights” to invade Crimea, comparing it with the UK’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands.
In the latest unearthed social media comment made by Robert Kenyon, who is taking on Labour’s Andy Burnham in the Greater Manchester constituency on 18 June, the Reform candidate agreed with a post which described Moscow’s annexation of the peninsula in March 2014 as “democracy in action”, The Telegraph reports.