Jake Berry Left Red-Faced After Forgetting Name Of Reform UK By-Election Candidate

The former Tory chairman made the embarrassing blunder on live TV.

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A senior Reform UK figure was left red-faced on live TV after forgetting the name of the party’s candidate in a crucial by-election.

Jake Berry, the former Tory chairman who defected to Nigel Farage’s party last year, made the embarrassing blunder during a painful interview on on BBC Newsnight.

Reform announced on Tuesday that they had chosen local plumber Robert Kenyon to take on Labour’s Andy Burnham in next month’s Makerfield by-election.

But Berry said: “What is extraordinary about this by-election is you have ‘Robert Jenkins’, a brilliant candidate for Reform...”

“That’s not his name, by the way,” presenter Victoria Derbyshire cut in. “It’s Robert Kenyon.”

“Robert Kenyon, I beg your pardon,” Berry replied after an awkward........

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