2 w. ago Reform MP’s advert comments risk normalising ‘flagrant racism’ – Lammy

Sarah Pochin apologised for causing offence after saying she was ‘driven mad’ by seeing ‘adverts full of black and Asian people’.

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage brands Reform MP’s comments ‘ugly’ but insists she’s not racist

The Reform UK leader says he is ‘unhappy’ with Sarah Pochin’s comments on Black and Asian people in adverts but that he ‘understands the basic point’ and will not take further action

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage defends MP’s complaint about TV adverts as ‘ugly’ but not ‘deliberately’ racist

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin said seeing adverts of black or Asian people ‘drives me mad’Nigel Farage has defended remarks made by a Reform MP who said seeing adverts full of black and Asian people “drives her mad”, arguing the intention behind her comments was not racist.The Reform UK leader said if he felt Sarah Pochin’s words were “deliberately and genuinely racist”, he would have “taken action” against her. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Reform UK defends MP Sarah Pochin who was branded 'racist' when she complained about adverts 'full of black people, full of Asian people'

Zia Yusuf, head of party policy, said comments made by his 'close friend' Sarah Pochin should be put into context - and that she had made a 'valid point'.

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2 w. ago Reform MP apologises after hitting out at adverts ‘full of black people’

She said her comments were "phrased poorly" but insisted that many adverts are "unrepresentative of British society".

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2 w. ago Streeting condemns Farage’s ‘deafening silence’ over ‘racist’ remarks from Reform MP

Reform MP Sarah Pochin provoked widespread condemnation when she said: that it ‘drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people’

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2 w. ago Reform UK MP apologises after hitting out at adverts ‘full of black people’

Sarah Pochin later said her comments had been "phrased poorly".

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3 w. ago Reform MP says sorry after backlash when she complained about adverts 'full of black people, full of Asian people'

Sarah Pochin, who became the party's first MP when she won a by-election in Runcorn and Helsby this May, said her comments were 'phrased poorly' in an apology.

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3 w. ago Reform’s Pochin apologises after hitting out at adverts ‘full of black people’

The MP said her comments had been phrased poorly.

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3 w. ago Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'

Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'

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3 w. ago Reform’s Sarah Pochin: Adverts full of black people ‘drive me mad’

Labour called on Reform UK to distance itself from the MP’s comments.

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3 w. ago Reform MP Sarah Pochin says it ‘drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people’

Reform MP Sarah Pochin claimed it “drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people” during a live television phone in.

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