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An aspiring Kirklees MP is out of the running before the campaign has even officially begun.

The Brexit Party's Jill Hughes is reportedly no longer their candidate for Batley and Spen .

Her departure comes after bizarre social media posts were uncovered and reported by anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate.

It found that in 2017 she claimed to be a spiritual guide from Sirius, a star 8.6 light years away from earth.

In a book she published entitled Spirit of Prophecy she promoted the idea that aliens were living among us and working with governments across the world.

Hope Not Hate also accused her of embellishing her CV, which claims she was a "No 1 bestselling author" and "one of the UK's leading wealth mentors".

It is not clear if Hughes has stood down or has been dropped by party HQ following the revelation of her eccentric views.

She has made no official statement but Brexit Party chiefs said she had stepped down, the Yorkshire Post reports.

Hughes, who hails from Bradford, also believes in "elves/fairies/mermaids/unicorns and all things elemental and otherworldly", and that her horse was reincarnated as another horse.

In her book Spirit of Prophecy, it says “the E.T’s, some of them less than Apple Pie wholesome or Positive pumpkins, are already here working with our world Governments, but that’s all hush-hush for now”.

Hughes had begun to align herself with the campaign to save Red House Museum at Gomersal and had contacted ExaminerLive asking us to report that she had played a key part in saving it from being sold.

Jonathan Scott, who said he ran Vote Leave campaigns in Dewsbury and Batley and Spen, questioned her credentials in a Facebook post.

"I have run numerous successful local and general election campaigns over the last 25 years in Dewsbury and Batley and Spen and I can't say I have ever heard of you or your name? No one I have spoken to even at Brexit Party events have ever mentioned you?"

He went on to say he had never seen her at Brexit Party events or canvassing. "I don't recall you at any one of those events in Dewsbury or Batley," he wrote.

ExaminerLive has approached Jill Hughes and the Brexit Party for comment.