Undercover documentary shows Reform UK candidates making racist, sexual and violent remarks

LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) — Several members of Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party, including elected local-level politicians, have been filmed making racist, sexual and violent remarks by undercover reporters for an upcoming TV documentary. Farage's party has in recent months slipped from first place in opinion polls after allegations about its finances, and as the governing Labour Party's popularity has rebounded under new their new leader, Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The footage from the ITV documentary "Undercover: A Year In Reform" showed one man calling Asian homeowners "parasites" and expressing anti-Muslim views while campaigning for Reform in local elections earlier this year. He was subsequently elected. ITV released extracts of its findings before the full documentary airs on October 18. Other covertly filmed footage included one candidate in those elections discussing burying pork chops in the ground as a possible way to stop a new mosque being built. Another candidate repeatedly used a derogatory term for people from Pakistan and made explicit sexual comments about a fellow Reform member. Both were later elected. A fourth person, also a Reform councillor, was shown saying h