A Reform UK MP has faced backlash after joking about wearing a 'tartan burka' during the party's Scottish election launch. Sarah Pochin made the remark when her autocue malfunctioned at the event in Renfrewshire.
Pochin said: 'I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but I just wasn't allowed.' She added that future events should not be live-streamed so they could 'do all the naughty stuff'.
Labour condemned the comments, noting it was not the first time Pochin had caused controversy. In a post on X, the party said: 'It took less than 30 seconds for Sarah Pochin to start making jokes about Muslims after her autocue broke.'
Pochin previously apologised after saying on a TalkTV phone-in that 'it drives me mad when I see adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people'. She argued that such adverts did not represent 'your average white person' or families outside London.
