MP brands Reform UK’s deputy leader ‘pathetic’ in RAF base security row

The deputy leader of Reform UK has hit back after being branded “pathetic” by an MP over comments he made about the female commanding officer of an RAF base.

Louise Jones – the Labour MP for North East Derbyshire – condemned Richard Tice for comments he posted on X about Group Captain Louise Henton following a security breach at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

The Boston and Skegness MP posted: “Kept safe & secure by an HR manager……well done folks” with a link to the officer’s biography.

In response to Jones’s comments in Parliament on Tuesday, Tice said the “woke weakness from Lib Dem and Labours MPs is a national embarrassment”.

Jones, who served in Afghanistan with the Army, said: “Certain pathetic little people took this incident and decided to come out of the woodwork and…