Earlier this week, The National reported how renowned Scottish historian Tom Devine drew comparisons between Reform UK and Nazi Germany after Nigel Farage's party pledged it would tell museums how to present history in Wales

Now the party has been accused of a "systematic failure" in its vetting after Nathaniel Menday, standing for Reform in Sheffield, was found to have said the Berlin’s Olympiastadion was built by people who were "real visionaries", The Times reports[…]
The stadium was built by Nazi Germany to host the 1936 Olympics and designed by Albert Speer[…]
Elsewhere, Reform candidate Ben Rowe, who is standing in Plymouth, urged protesters throwing bricks at police defending a mosque to “get rid of that filthy building” during the 2024 Southport riots

Commenting on a YouTube video earlier this year, Rowe accused “the Jews” of “creating division by forcing other races on our societies”. He elsewhere described immigrants to the UK as “breeding like rats” and labelled Islam “a cancer”

Menday told the publication he was sorry for bringing Reform “into disrepute” adding he enjoyed “risky humour and pushing boundaries”[…]
David Davies, a Reform candidate in east London, also said putting black people in positions of power would be “disastrous” and described Muslims as “by far the biggest group of fraudsters”

Paul Hewson meanwhile, who is standing in Chadwell Heath, Barking and Dagenham, has expressed his support for right-wing politician Enoch Powell

His posts include “free Tommy” and “listen to Tommy” in support of the far right agitator Tommy Robinson[…]
Trevor Jones, a Reform candidate for Bolton North East, said he was “not buying another convenient virus just before Christmas” in November 2021.

Bev Watkins, standing in Wakefield for Reform, has previously shared hoax content which warned against taking a “new” paracetamol which “contains "Machupo" virus