Sarah Pochin and Nigel Farage following her by-election win in May.

A Reform UK MP clashed with a radio presenter as she repeatedly refused to provide evidence for Nigel Farage’s claim that some Afghans airlifted to the UK after a data leak are “convicted sex offenders”.

At one point during the interview, an exasperated Sarah Pochin told Times Radio’s Kate McCann to “ask me another question”.

Farage made the claim after it emerged that the government had used a super-injunction to cover up the scandal for nearly two years.

A dataset containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghans who applied for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) was accidentally released “in error” in February 2022 by a Ministry of Defence official.

The mistake was only uncovered 18 months later after a threat was made to publish the list on Facebook, potentially putting those named at risk of reprisals from the Taliban.

The leak led to the creation of a secret........

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