Following the racist comments by the English Democrat candidate at the Newark Business Club hustings last week I have asked the police to investigate whether any criminal offences were committed.

The ED candidate chose to make openly racist and inflammatory comments early on in the hustings meeting staged at the YMCA in Newark last Thursday night. I was the only candidate to call this out as unacceptable, something which earned me the loudest applause of the whole evening.

As I was preparing my own answer to the question that the ED candidate was answering I didn’t have the chance to write down exactly what he said but I know a recording was being made and hopefully the police will acquire that to check whether what happened did amount to a criminal offence.