Since the return of Nigel Farage, Reform UK has been going from strength to strength. Last week a YouGov survey for the Times saw the Farage-founded group overtake the Tories in the polls for the first time. Today JL Partners’s research has found that since the arch-Brexiteer’s comeback, Rishi Sunak’s popularity has dropped to pre-election lows. But it’s not all been plain sailing for Reform UK. Now the party’s Welwyn Hatfield candidate has come under fire for comments he made in relation to a pseudoscientific theory about multiple personality types – in which he described Adolf Hitler as ‘brilliant’ and ‘able to inspire people to action’. Oh dear…
And there’s more. It turns out that in online comments over the last four years Aaron – who founded the World Socionics Society, which promotes a theory that there are 16 personality types – has also called Syrian dictator President Assad ‘gentle by nature’ and described Putin’s ‘motivation to acquire and wield force’ in Ukraine as ‘legitimate’.
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