Multiple news outlets — Manchester Evening News, BBC, The Independent, and others — reported on social media posts from Robert Kenyon's now-deleted X account (@robkenyon1) that were uncovered by the campaign group Hope Not Hate. The posts directly relate to discouraging COVID vaccination: 1. Replying to someone who said COVID vaccines "help a lot," the account wrote: "What a load of c***." 2. Replying to someone who had COVID, he wrote: "Wait longer, take vitamins, stop having boosters." 3. He stated he had "no booster" and had COVID asymptomatically, implying the booster was unnecessary. 4. He compared Australian COVID vaccination policies to Nazism. 5. He interacted with far-right influencer Peter Imanuelsen, appearing to support a COVID lockdown conspiracy theory and suggesting the media was "complicit" in "global tyranny." Reform UK did not dispute that these posts were linked to Kenyon. A Reform spokesperson noted that Kenyon himself "had all his Covid jabs during the pandemic," but this does not negate that his public posts encouraged others to avoid vaccination/boosters. The characterization that Kenyon "encouraged people not to get the COVID vaccine" is a fair and accurate summary of his social media activity. He told people to "stop having boosters," dismissed claims that vaccines help as nonsense, and compared vaccination policies to Nazism — all of which serve to discourage vaccination. Sources: Manchester Evening News — "Keir Starmer slates Reform's Makerfield candidate Robert Kenyon as 'self-professed sexist'" (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/keir-starmer-slates-reforms-makerfield-34058336); BBC — "Reform UK's Makerfield candidate faces social media allegations" (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy025epkl79o); The Independent — "The unearthed posts from Reform's Makerfield candidate Robert Kenyon" (https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/reform-makerfield-byelection-robert-kenyon-social-media-b2997445.html)