Brexiters peddled ‘nationalistic pish’, said Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate

Reform UK's candidate for the Makerfield byelection, Robert Kenyon, has faced scrutiny over 2016 social media posts in which he criticized Brexit as an economically self-harming project promoted by politicians peddling "nationalistic pish," and suggested he may not have voted for Leave despite previously claiming to support it. The discovery of these comments, along with other controversial posts expressing vaccine scepticism, backing Russia's 2014 invasion of Crimea, and endorsing a lewd comment about Carol Vorderman, has raised questions about his commitment to Nigel Farage's Brexit agenda ahead of the 18 June byelection against Labour's Andy Burnham.