Reform candidate defects to Tories amid racism row
The TelegraphBecause nominations for the July 4 election have closed, Mr Booth-Isherwood will still appear on the ballot paper. “Whilst I have campaigned alongside many decent, honest and hard-working people during the course of the general election campaign in Erewash, the reports of widespread racism and sexism in Reform have made clear that there is a significant moral issue within certain elements of the party. Only she can stop Labour.” Mr Booth-Isherwood had previously said he was disillusioned with the Conservatives and that Reform “better represents the values I wish to campaign on”. A Conservative Party spokesman said: “If just 130,000 voters like him, currently considering a vote for Reform or Liberal Democrat, voted Conservative it would be enough to stop Labour’s super-majority, which means higher taxes and an illegal immigration amnesty. “There is no doubt only a vote for the Conservatives can prevent an unaccountable majority for Labour and the ruin this would bring for the country.” It came as Mr Farage dismissed claims that “Russian-inspired” bots were interfering in the election as “cobblers”, having been targeted by a Vladmir Putin-themed stunt at a campaign rally on Saturday.
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