Richard Tice Slammed For Failing To Condemn Councillor Who Said 'Nigerians Should Be Melted Down'

"A watershed moment for Reform, and one they’ll come to long regret."

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice is facing a mounting backlash after he failed to condemn one of the party’s new councillors who said Nigerans should be melted down to fill potholes”.

Tice was asked repeatedly in a series of interviews to disown the remarks by Glenn Gibbins, who was elected in the Hylton Castle ward in Sunderland in Thursday council elections.

In a post on social media in 2024, he said: “Can’t believe amount of Nigerians in town ... should melt them all down and fill in the potholes.”

Gibbins was suspended by Reform on Sunday, but only after Tice had dismissed the criticism of him as “smearing and sneering”.

On the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Tice said: “I’m going later to a campaign against the scourge of anti-semitism, which is the greatest threat facing us, particularly in London but........

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