Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front

Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election in Greater Manchester, holds a visiting professorship at a university centre whose network includes the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation. Byline Times can reveal that Goodwin has actively defended, promoted and cited key figures within the network, which encompasses at least five organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience.

Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front, bylinetimes.com

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said

Comments late last year indicate challenges Farage faces in courting working-class voters

Reform UK’s candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election has said the party would put public sector unions “under review” if it came to power, in a sign of the challenges Nigel Farage faces as he seeks to court working-class voters.

“[Reform] will place public sector trade unions under review,” Matthew Goodwin said during a speech in early December, before the by-election had been called, at which he set out a wide-ranging policy vision for a Reform government to “fix broken Britain”.

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said, ft.com