Join Ali Fortescue as police are "urgently assessing" racist and homophobic comments made by Reform UK activists as Rishi Sunak spoke of his hurt and anger at a personal slur.

The Essex force said it was looking "to establish if there are any criminal offences".

It came after the prime minister said he hated repeating the bigoted insult directed at him by a supporter of Nigel Farage's party, but said as a father of two daughters it was important to challenge "corrosive and divisive behaviour".

Reform campaigners had been recorded by an undercover Channel 4 reporter making racist comments, including about the Tory leader who is of Indian descent

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