Reform UK got here underneath fireplace for banning the Ukrainian flag from city halls.
Nigel Farage‘s celebration mentioned it might solely fly the Union Jack, St George’s flag and county flags from the council buildings it controls.
The celebration stormed to victory in ten native authorities in England eventually week’s native elections, together with Durham, Lancashire and Staffordshire.
Reform chairman Zia Yusuf mentioned its councils ‘will transfer at pace to resolve that the one flags to be flown on or in its buildings would be the Union Jack and St George’s flag’.
Writing on X, he added: ‘No different flags shall be permitted to be flown on its flagpoles, balconies, reception desks or council chamber partitions.’
The celebration later clarified that county flags would even be permitted.
However Labour MP Mike Tapp urged Reform to drop their ‘sickening’ ban on flying the Ukrainian flag.
‘As VE Day reminds us, Britain has a proud historical past of working with allies to defeat dictators and tyrants,’ the previous soldier, now MP for Dover and Deal, mentioned.
Nigel Farage’s celebration mentioned it might solely fly the Union Jack, St George’s flag and county flags from the council buildings it controls
Labour MP Mike Tapp urged Reform to drop their ‘sickening’ ban on flying the Ukrainian flag
‘However whereas it’s sickening, it ought to come as no shock. Farage advised us that Vladimir Putin is the world chief he most admires.
‘Farage and Reform councillors ought to cease sucking as much as Moscow and drop their ban on flying the Ukrainian flag.’
Mr Farage was criticised final yr for suggesting the West ‘provoked’ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sir Keir Starmer has beforehand accused Reform of ‘fawning over Putin’.
Earlier than Reform’s clarification, Labour and Tory MPs criticised that county flags wouldn’t be allowed to fly.
Chris Webb, Labour MP for Blackpool South, mentioned Reform was off to ‘an incredible begin’ by ‘banning’ the Lancashire Rose from flying.
A Reform spokesman mentioned: ‘Reform UK will proudly fly the Union Jack, St George’s Flag and county flags. In contrast to the Tories and Labour, we’re pleased with our nation and historical past.’
