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The Independent UK
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Lucy Leeson

Reform MP Sarah Pochin says it ‘drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people’

Reform MP Sarah Pochin claimed it “drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people” during a live television phone in.

The Runcorn and Helsby MP appeared on TalkTV on Saturday (25 October), when she responded to a question from a caller named Stuart, who asked her if her party will do anything about the “representation of demographics in TV adverts”.

Responding to Stuart, she said: “It is something that has happened because, I believe, of the woke Liberal that goes on inside.”

The MP has since apologised for any offence caused, saying her comments were “phrased poorly”.

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