Nigel Farage has said comments made by Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin about ethnic minorities on TV adverts were “ugly”, but has refused to say they were racist.

The Reform leader has been under pressure to suspend Pochin, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, after she told a media phone-in that it drives her “mad” to “see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”.

During an appearance on TalkTV, Pochin added that “it doesn’t reflect our society” and “your average white person, average white family is… not represented any more”.

The MP has since apologised, saying her comments had been “phrased poorly”, but appeared to stand by the sentiment.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Farage had “questions to answer” over what he labelled an example of “shocking racism”.

But Farage insisted he d

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