Earlier this week, the anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate passed us their research into Goodwin’s fellow campaigners. They had identified five separate individuals who had been out campaigning with Goodwin who had shared racist content online or expressed support for far-right groups. In some cases, there is little grey area: Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First, baselessly suggested that 60-70% of transgender people are paedophiles or posted online that Muslims are only in the UK because they wish to “conquer” it.

This is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is the fact that Nigel Farage has always been at pains to distance his party from known far-right groups. He’s been publicly critical of Tommy Robinson on many occasions, and as UKIP leader he banned ex-British National Party members from running for his party.

And yet Goodwin, who is striving to become Farage’s ninth MP, and whose victory would probably represent the biggest and most significant one so far for Reform, appears to have surrounded himself with exactly the kinds of characters Farage claims he keeps at a distance.

Chief among these is Adam Mitula, who is currently serving as Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside. On his Facebook page Mitula has posted photos of himself with what appears to be a small team assisting Goodwin in his bid to become MP, also including Tameside councillor Allan Hopwood (who you might remember from this Mill interview) and Rob Barrowcliffe, Tameside’s interim Reform branch chair.

Mitula is an entrepreneur who has been involved in various businesses, including in real estate, crypto and Fintech. He was born in Szczecin, Poland, and on his website he says he was raised in a traditional Catholic culture and drew inspiration from Arnold Schwarzenegger in his weightlifting pursuits.

Mitula’s output, posted on social media, includes his suggestion that “60-70%” of transgender people are paedophiles, the fact he would “never touch a Jewish woman”, and his use of the n-word. Meanwhile, discussing the number of people who died in the Holocaust in July 2024, he appears to try and play down the statistics, writing: “6 million polish [sic] people including some Jews. They always use Poles to make up the number. And on top of it they claim Poles were killing. Just sick.”