Reform UK Suspends Sheffield Councillor Over Nazi-Sympathetic Posts
The case puts Reform UK's candidate vetting in question.
Overview
- Reform UK suspended Councillor Nathaniel Menday pending an internal investigation, saying he failed to declare social media posts that brought the party into disrepute.
- The posts, many now deleted, praised Nazis as “real visionaries,” displayed swastikas and Hitler’s Mein Kampf, referenced the Sonnenrad symbol, and described a “subhuman underclass” in the UK.
- Reporters recovered material from a deleted X account and web archives, with The Times and The Sheffield Star using the Wayback Machine to verify and publish the posts.
- Menday was elected to Sheffield City Council for Woodhouse with 1,987 votes, beating Labour’s candidate by more than 1,000.
- He denies antisemitism and says he once flirted with far-right ideas but rejects them, while local Reform campaigners say they had not met him during the campaign, raising oversight concerns.