Jake Berry, former Tory minister turned Reform memberA senior Reform UK figure was left red-faced on live TV after forgetting the name of the party’s candidate in a crucial by-election.
Jake Berry, the former Tory chairman who defected to Nigel Farage’s party last year, made the embarrassing blunder during a painful interview on on BBC Newsnight.
Reform announced on Tuesday that they had chosen local plumber Robert Kenyon to take on Labour’s Andy Burnham in next month’s Makerfield by-election.
But Berry said: “What is extraordinary about this by-election is you have ‘Robert Jenkins’, a brilliant candidate for Reform...”
“That’s not his name, by the way,” presenter Victoria Derbyshire cut in. “It’s Robert Kenyon.”
“Robert Kenyon, I beg your pardon...
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