Reform UK national director Adam Bounds tried to recruit members to a "physical resistance group" for "gorillas by night tactics" and promoted far-right and conspiracy theory content. 

HOPE not hate has identified a now-deleted account on the messaging app Telegram as having belonged to Reform UK’s Adam Bounds.

After last year’s general election, Nigel Farage promised that “those ‘bad apples’ that have crept in will be gone”. 

But Bounds is yet another so-called “bad apple” having worked for Farage’s party since the election.