A newly-recruited Reform councillor is under fire for comments made about the Pakistani community in a voicemail left to a journalist.

On Wednesday 18 June, Councillor Andrew Barry, who is a Reform councillor for Merthyr Tydfil Council, left a voicemail seemingly in error to an ITV Wales journalist.

In it, he is having a conversation with an unknown second person about the benefits system and housing. He goes on to say: “They’re putting the immigrants in the HMOs. They’re everywhere. The problem we’ve got, no one’s interested… (Inaudible)

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Newly-recruited Reform councillor under fire after voicemail message branded racist, ITV