Reform UK’s candidate vetting process is apparently so stringent that they think that they’re actually too diligent when checking the suitability of candidates.
So diligent that they appear to have missed the fact that they seem to have missed the fact that Nick Wood, one of their candidates for councillor, has actually been put forward as a candidate for another party – as well as currently supposedly serving as an officer for them.
He’s previously stood for election on behalf of the UKIP party. Apparently he himself some that thought he’d left it until he was told at a Reform UK members-only meeting that he had been chosen as the UKIP candidate to stand for them at the next election.
Nonetheless, Reform have put him forward as their candidate in the Surrey County Council election. This is despite the fact he’s listed as a UKIP branch officer on the Electoral Commission records.