Alan Feeney has quit as a Reform councillor after secretly recorded footage showed him making racist comments about Asian homeowners during an election campaign.
01Summary
- 01Alan Feeney resigned from his posts on Solihull borough council and Birmingham city council in a Facebook post on Friday.
- 02An ITV undercover investigation showed him calling Asian homeowners “parasites” and saying that “no more than 1%” of the British population can be non-white.
- 03Feeney had earlier won seats in Birmingham’s Shard End ward and Solihull’s Castle Bromwich ward, and was appointed deputy mayor of Solihull.
- 04He first said he was leaving Reform for “personal reasons” before later resigning as an independent councillor as well.
- 05Two other Reform candidates filmed in the same investigation, Jamie Campbell and Chris Whelan, have also resigned.
02Why it matters
The resignation follows a major racism scandal involving elected councillors in two local authorities. It may affect both councils and adds pressure on Reform UK over its vetting and claims to deal with extremism.
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