Reform leader rebuffs MP's jibe that his party is 'anti-Cornish'

A POLITICAL war of words has broken out between one of Cornwall's Labour MPs and the leader of Reform UK in the Duchy.

- LEE TREWHELA

Perran Moon, MP for Camborne, Redruth and Hayle, has accused Reform of being “the anti-Cornish party”.

Rob Parsonage, Reform’s group leader in Cornwall, has accused Mr Moon of being rattled by his party’s success at May's council elections and argued that Reform is “putting the interests of the British and Cornish people first and foremost”.

Mr Moon's comments come after Reform’s leader Nigel Farage outlined the party’s immigration policy this week, which would see it leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if voted in as the next government.

The MP said: “Reform UK’s announcement that it would withdraw from the ECHR would be catastrophic for Cornish National Minority Status, because the internationally recognised Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities is applied via the Council of Europe.