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"path": "/uk/2026/05/12/reform-uk-sixth-councillor-suspended/",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-12T20:47:33.000Z",
"site": "https://www.thecanary.co",
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"Local Elections 2026",
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"textContent": "Glenn Gibbons, the newly elected hard-right Reform UK councillor, has become the sixth to be suspended. This follows outcry over his violent remarks about Nigerians who he said the state should: melt them all down and fill in the pot holes!! Drawing stark parallels to the dehumanising rhetoric seen in Nazi Germany, Farage has attracted […]\n\nBy Maddison Wheeldon",
"title": "Reform UK sees its sixth councillor suspended over racist rhetoric"
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