Reform UK defends candidate over Hitler neutrality comments

Party’s spokesperson says Ian Gribbin’s comments that Britain should have accepted Nazi offer ‘probably true’

Reform UK has defended one of its candidates who said Britain should have “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality”, saying the comments were “probably true”.

The row prompted the Conservatives to directly criticise Ian Gribbin, the party’s candidate in Bexhill and Battle, who was reported to have written on a website’s comment section: “Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people.”