Reform UK’s first female MP has been filmed telling an undercover ITV reporter that senior party officials are “so f***ing chauvinistic”. Sarah Pochin said women were “excluded” by the party’s “alpha males”. Separate footage shows Reform councillors describing Asian homeowners as “parasites”, black children as “animals” and one calling for the beheading of King Charles over rumours he was Muslim.
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The death penalty hasn't applied for treason in the UK since the late '90s (I remember it because I bet someone that there was no death penalty in the UK a week after the death penalty for treason was revoked).
@david_chisnall @IncHulk @kibcol1049
Wasn't there another outlier offence, something about "Arson in the King's dockyard" or similar?
Possibly, but all cases of the death penalty were removed in 1998. This was part of the agreement to the European Convention on Human Rights, which became binding in 2004 (and is not directly tied to EU membership, so remains in force).
@kibcol1049
Calling for the beheading of King Charles would be Treason I think? This is the only crime where the death penalty still applies in the UK.
The execution would not be live streamed though (unless Reform came to power).