Reform UK has surged in the polls but the party harbours some unsavoury rogues - from a candidate who supports Tommy Robinson to a Covid conspiracy theorist who likened Boris Johnson to Hitler and eve

The party's surge in the polls has led to panic in Downing Street, and talk about a return to frontline politics for Nigel Farage. But a Mail on Sunday investigation into the candidates selected to stand at the next election for Reform UK – the successor to Mr Farage's Brexit Party – has revealed that the potential MPs include a convicted animal abuser and a fortune-teller who sold spells for £200 on the pornography-dominated site OnlyFans. She is a self-proclaimed psychic fortune teller who sold spells for up to £200 on Facebook in 2019 while offering 'mystic psychic readings' for £14.99 on her now-deleted OnlyFans page Yvette Maxwell-Darkes, the candidate for Swindon North, has expressed support for Tommy Robinson, arguing that the convicted criminal 'has very good things to say' and that 'I actually like him – he stands up and says things that most people think' The Reform UK candidates – who have to pay a vetting fee of £25 when they apply to stand – include Garry Sutherland, standing in the Exmouth and Exeter East constituency, who was found guilty in June last year of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog by kicking it in a Dorset country lane. Last night a Reform spokesman said: 'Reform UK's candidates are real people living real lives, like millions of Mail on Sunday readers. Like all parties, Reform UK has had a small number of candidates who have said or written something unacceptable' The party has also deselected its candidate for Milton Keynes Central, Ray Brady, over what Labour described as a 'misleading' and 'dangerous' video he shared concerning asylum seekers.