Lammy demands Farage cleans racists out of Reform after vile attacks
David Lammy has demanded that Nigel Farage, who has been the target of racist rhetoric from Reform candidates and councillors, clean up his party.
The deputy prime minister has hit out after Reform’s Hampshire mayoral candidate Chris Parry said he should “go home” to where his “commitment” to the Caribbean lies.
Mr Parry, a former Rear Admiral of the Royal Navy, also described his four female colleagues as “harpies” and suggested Parliament would be filled with Muslim MPs by 2035.
Mr Lammy, who was born and raised in north London, recently wrote: Independent About the terrible racism he had to endure as a child and teenager.
He said: “I lived [racism] As a young boy growing up in London, where the ugly face of division was seen every day. I feared that skinheads would patrol our neighborhoods, spreading their hatred on street corners and football fields. “Once, while I was doing my job with my mother and sister, we were spat at each other just for being us.”
Mr Parry’s despicable attack was not isolated when Ian Cooper, Reform’s council leader in Staffordshire, said last week that “no foreign national or first-generation immigrant should be allowed to sit in Parliament”, referring to Mr Lammy.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the justice minister said defiantly: “Racism will never scare me.”
Although Mr Cooper has been kicked out of Reform, Mr Parry remains the party’s candidate in Hampshire.
Another Reform councilor, Chris Large, refused to endorse a comment describing Mr Lammy as “another non-thoroughbred greedy”.
The row comes as Mr Farage is struggling to cope with allegations he made racist and antisemitic remarks at school 50 years ago.
Among the allegations were that he said “Hitler was right” and that he imitated the hissing sounds of the gas chamber.
Mr Farage ranted when asked about the allegations at a recent BBC press conference about 1970s comedian Bernard Manning.
But deputy prime minister demands Farage cleans up his party
Mr Lammy shared: “As Deputy Prime Minister I am focused on serving the British people and tend to ignore the noise.
“But last week I was sent these stories: A Reform mayoral candidate tells me to ‘go home’ to the Caribbean, where he says ‘my loyalties are a lie.’
“A Reform councillor’s TikTok account endorses a comment calling me a ‘greedy none (sic) thoroughbred’.
“A Reform council leader referred to me as saying ‘no foreign-born or first-generation immigrant should be allowed to sit in Parliament’, apparently unaware that I was a British citizen born in North London.”
He continued: “I will never be discouraged by racism, but I will call it that.”
“Nigel Farage, you need to clean up your party and stamp out this 1950s style hatred.”
Independent He contacted Reform for comment.
