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Rishi Sunak said a racial slur against him by a Reform UK campaigner "hurts and it makes me angry" and that Nigel Farage has "questions to answer".
Canvasser Andrew Parker was recorded calling the PM a "f****** P***" by an undercover Channel 4 reporter while out in the Essex constituency of Clacton.
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Speaking on a campaign visit to a school in Teesside, Mr Sunak said: "My two daughters have to see and hear Reform people who campaign to Nigel Farage calling me an effing p***.
"It hurts and it makes me angry, and I think he has some questions to answer.
"I don't repeat those words lightly. I do so deliberately because this is too important not to call out clearly for what it is."
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He added: "And as Prime Minister, but more importantly as a father of two young girls, it's my duty to call out this corrosive and divisive behaviour."
Reform UK leader Mr Farage, who has sought to distance himself from the comments, used reports that Mr Parker was a part-time actor to suggest "this whole thing was a complete and total set-up".
Mr Parker confirmed he is an actor but said he had got involved with Reform by contacting the party himself and volunteering to do leafletting because he believes in its message and had not mentioned that he was an actor.
He said: "Of course I regret what I said. Christ, I'm not a racist. I've had Muslim girlfriends. It was typical chaps-down-the-pub talk."
The activist added: "Of course I'm sorry. They were off-the-cuff things that everyone says."
Asked why he had made the remarks, Mr Parker said: "It was in the heat of the moment. I was goaded on."
He suggested the undercover reporter had been "making jokes and bits and pieces" which were not included in the published footage, but would not expand on what he was claiming the journalist had said.
It is not the first time Mr Farage has faced questions over some Reform UK candidates and the party has withdrawn support from several people prior to the General Election after investigations uncovered previous comments they had made.
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A spokesperson for Channel 4 News said: "We strongly stand by our rigorous and duly impartial journalism which speaks for itself.
"We met Mr Parker for the first time at Reform UK party headquarters, where he was a Reform party canvasser.
"We did not pay the Reform UK canvasser or anyone else in this report. Mr Parker was not known to Channel 4 News and was filmed covertly via the undercover operation."
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