A Reform activist and potential parliamentary candidate caught on camera saying ‘you cannot be a Muslim and British’ and advocating for migrant concentration camps has been suspended by the party.

Jason Powell is being investigated by the party after being filmed making the remarks by an undercover ITV Exposure team at a ‘Farage Fest’ in the summer after the party leader was re-elected as the MP for Clacton.

The activist, who said he had passed the vetting required to stand to be a Reform MP, told an undercover reporter he was ‘pretty hard-line about Islam’ and was likely to have disagreements with the party’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf, a British Muslim.

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