A Brexit Party insider has blamed the party’s loss in the Peterborough by-election on Labour’s popularity among Pakistani voters.

The insider, whose position within the party is not known, was quoted in the Guardian saying that inner-city Pakistani wards won the election for Labour. They said: “Some of these houses had 14 people in them registered to vote. It would be interesting to see what proportion voted Labour.”

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Labour called this claim a “racist trope”. And, taking to Twitter, think-tank director Sunder Katwala asked Brexit Party Head of Press Gawain Towler to disown these anonymous comments.

Towler didn’t address the remarks directly, instead saying: ‘We absolutely choose “all ethnicities for Brexit” as is clear from our campaign, and campIgners [sic].’

Towler has followed his boss Nigel Farage from UKIP and so, it seems, have the racial undertones of UKIP politics.

READ: How Labour hung on in the Peterborough by-election