Streeting calls Pochin 'racist' for saying 'ads full of black people' make her mad

REFORM MP Sarah Pochin has been accused of racism after she said it drives her “mad” when she sees adverts full of “black and Asian people”.

- By Martyn Brown Political Editor

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the language was a “disgrace” and marks a return to “1970s and 1980s-style racism”.

Ms Pochin, pictured above, has apologised but Mr Streeting said the silence from Reform leader Nigel Farage on the matter was “deafening”.

He told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg show: “Reform is a party who thinks that our flag only belongs to some of us who look like me, not all of us who have built this country’s success.”

His remarks come just two weeks after Sir Keir Starmer labelled Reform’s plans to deport 600,000 migrants as