In a strong response, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is angered by a racially abusive gesture made toward him by a fan of Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party. This involved a campaigner who had been involved in the unfair referring to Sunak’s daughters by the racially sensitive term ‘Paki’.
Speaking to the media, Sunak, the first ethnic minority Britain’s PM, did not waste time in speaking his mind. ‘It hurts, and it makes me angry.’ I do not utter those words frivolously; I use them purposefully because this is too important to sugarcoat, he said.
Sunak lambasted the ‘culture’ of the Reform Party, saying it is shocking that the Reform Party’s candidates use racist and misogynistic language.
In response, Farage considered the campaigner’s remarks dreadful while disassociating himself and the party from those few people who had let the country down.
Reform UK also has to deal with how they can vet candidates since the election call was early, and they are a party that runs on the belief that immigrants are taking the UK’s jobs. Hope Not Hate, the anti-racism organization, explained that 166 of the party’s candidates had to pull out for this year, most due to racism and otherwise objectionable comments.
Sunak also urged the voters to vote for his party instead of supporting Reform UK and noted that the Labour Party, which they despise, would be helped. He also dismissed Farage’s words regarding the invasion of Ukraine as “toxic and capitulating to Putin.”
