Wes Streeting has accused Reform UK of a “return to age-old racism that I thought we had consigned to the 1970s and 1980s” and an attempt to delegitimise Muslim voters in the wake of the Gorton and Denton by-election.
The health secretary hit out at Reform candidate Matt Goodwin after the politician was criticised for claiming that UK-born people from black, Asian or other immigrant backgrounds were not always British.
