The candidate had died shortly after being selected to stand in the general election.

Reform UK say they are ‘mortified’ after sacking an inactive parliamentary candidate who later turned out to be dead.

The hard-right political party dropped York Central candidate Tommy Cawkwell after he failed to reply to their emails and phone calls.

Reform initially said they had rescinded his candidacy due to inappropriate messages on social media, but later discovered he had died following the selection process.

  • Echo Dot
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    7 months ago

    Are we sure he was alive when he was selected as a candidate? Reform do not exactly have the most stringent of entry requirements, and I’m not entirely sure that lack of pulse would be a disqualifier. After all most of their candidates lack functional brain and that doesn’t seem to be a problem.