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UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will cop heavy flak if the Tories flop in council and mayoral votes next month

The right-wing political party issued an apology after publicly dismissing one of its election candidates for purported inactivity, unaware that the candidate had actually died.

Reform UK faces backlash after mistakenly dismissing deceased candidate. Later they apologized for the oversight.

Edward Legge was a high-flying Royal Navy officer serving in the West Indies when he became MP for Portsmouth in December 1747. The only problem was, he had been dead for three months.News of his

Reform UK has said it is ‘mortified’ after sacking a general election candidate who was deceased.

‘I’m mortified that through ignorance I did not realise the reason for his inactivity,’ says party chief

Party spokesman Gawain Towler said he was mortified that the party announced that York Central candidate Tommy Cawkwell had been dropped.

The party told the BBC it has removed more than 50 of its candidates for ‘complete inactivity’.

The candidate had died shortly after being selected to stand in the general election.

Reform UK dropped their candidate for York Central, Tommy Cawkwell, for 'inactivity' but later were found out he had actually passed away after being selected to stand as an MP