{"id":576378,"date":"2026-05-10T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:33:08","slug":"sunderland-reform-uk-councillor-suspended-over-alleged-racist-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576378\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Reform UK councillor suspended over alleged racist posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, deputy leader of Reform Richard Tice appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/m001bv01\/sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg<\/a>, where he was also asked about Gibbins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This weekend we are celebrating our incredible successes,&#8221; Tice said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like any party we have internal party processes to look where people have said or done the wrong thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I condemn anything that is wrong and inappropriate, but the key point is voters have heard all of this smearing and sneering against all of us and they voted for more Reform because they want action, they want delivery, they&#8217;re sick of the failures of the Tories and Labour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an interview on the same programme, Education Secretary and Sunderland MP Bridget Phillipson said the case was an example of &#8220;the kind of racism and division&#8221; Reform brought to politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Tice attacked what he called &#8220;the antisemitic Green Party,&#8221; Conservative shadow cabinet minister James Cleverly said on X: &#8220;How hard is it for Richard Tice to say that racism directed at Jews is wrong AND racism directed at Nigerians is ALSO wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform UK has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, deputy leader of Reform Richard Tice appeared on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, where he was also asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-576378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576378","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=576378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}