Reform UK Staffs county council leader accused of making racist comments

A Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, as a "narcissistic Pakistani" and saying a black British lawyer should have "F'd off back to Nigeria".

- Josh Halliday North of England editor

Ian Cooper, the leader of Staffordshire county council, is also said to have attacked the lord chancellor, David Lammy, in a social media post that said: "No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament."

In another post, Cooper allegedly claimed migrants were "intent on colonising the UK, destroying all that has gone before".

Nigel Farage's party said it was undertaking an "urgent internal investigation over Cllr Cooper's nondisclosure of social media accounts".

The revelations come only days after two other Reform UK councillors - including its only member in the Welsh parliament - were suspended over offensive messages.

Laura Anne Jones, the sole Reform member of the Senedd, used an inflammatory Chinese slur in a discussion about the threat of the