{"id":545803,"date":"2026-04-23T03:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:42:16","slug":"sir-david-amess-daughter-wants-reform-uk-candidate-to-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545803\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir David Amess&#8217; daughter wants Reform UK candidate to be suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hodges, who also had a post calling for the Mayor of London Sadiq Kahn to be &#8220;put into a coma&#8221;, has been contacted for a comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When contacted previously, he responded by quoting footballer Eric Cantona, who said in 1995: &#8220;When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC previously asked Reform UK leader Nigel Farage for his response to the posts. He said: &#8220;If what you say is true we will act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;In time I will go through a process and I will act. I always have and I always will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regardless of Reform&#8217;s decision, it is too late to withdraw or change the ballot papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hodges, who also had a post calling for the Mayor of London Sadiq Kahn to be &#8220;put into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-545803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}