Reform UK withdraws support from three election candidates after one said black people act 'like savages', another dubbed small boat migrants 'scum' and third who posted online about sub-Saharan Afric

Reform UK has withdrawn support from three of its candidates over offensive comments they have made, the party has confirmed. Nigel Farage's party is no longer backing Edward Oakenfull, Robert Lomas, and Leslie Lilley - who were all previously standing for Reform. Nigel Farage 's party is no longer backing Edward Oakenfull, Robert Lomas, and Leslie Lilley - who were all previously candidates for Reform Mr Oakenfull, who is standing in Derbyshire Dales, posted on X that 'importing loads of sub-Saharan Africans plus Muslims that inter-breed' had created a 'gene pool decline' Mr Oakenfull, who is standing in Derbyshire Dales, posted on X that 'importing loads of sub-Saharan Africans plus Muslims that inter-breed' had created a 'gene pool decline'. Robert Lomas, in Barnsley North, reportedly said that 'black people of Britain' were 'grifting the race card' and should 'get up off your lazy arses' and stop acting 'like savages' Leslie Lilley, who is running for the Reform party in Southend East and Rochford, said he would 'slaughter' migrants arriving on small boats and have their families 'taken out' He is one of 41 Reform candidates who are 'friends' on Facebook with the fascist leader Gary Raikes. Andrew Parker, who works as an actor, was filmed calling the Prime Minister 'a f***ing p***' as he canvassed in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex But today Mr Parker, a divorced father of one, from Bishop Stortford, Herts, who is a part time actor, refused when asked three times if he had been paid to infiltrate Reform UK to make their volunteers appear racist.