NEW: ‘Hitler was right’, says star Reform activist

By Harry Shukman and Sarah Hadley

A well-known Reform activist who campaigned for the party in the forthcoming local elections has denied the Holocaust and repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler, HOPE not hate can reveal.

Aaron Lee Taylor, who volunteered in Reform’s head office and twice met Nigel Farage has frequently shared material online that promotes Nazi Germany.

His profile on X contained clips of Hitler’s speeches and an image of the Führer captioned: “I gave it my all. Now it’s time for you to give it your all.”

Taylor was active in Reform’s Essex campaign and filmed himself delivering leaflets for the party. For a period he was Reform’s treasurer for Harwich and North Essex. “I am working closely within my local Reform UK branch,” he wrote on X in January.

Taylor has attended at least one official press conference and met a number of senior Reform figures, including Zia Yusuf and Robert Jenrick.

Farage first met Taylor in January this year, just weeks after he posted “HEIL HITLER” on social media. The Reform leader came to Taylor’s tanning salon in Essex and posed for pictures. They were photographed together again in March at an official party event.

Taylor has shared colourised footage of Hitler giving a Nazi salute and elsewhere wrote: “The greatest deception of all time is that the nazis we’re evil and the holocaust was real… it would seem [sic].”

“The Austrian painter was right,” wrote Taylor in reference to Hitler. “Amen to the white race,” he said on another occasion.

On November 1st 2025, the same day he tweeted Farage to congratulate him for selling 10,000 Reform-branded football shirts, he also shared a video of Hitler with a dog, a clip of Joseph Goebbels, and this statement about shooting brown people:

If it’s black send it back

If it’s brown shoot it down

If it’s white it’s perfectly alright (to stay in the UK)

Aaron Lee Taylor on X, November 1st 2025

Three days earlier, he posted “HH”, short for “Heil Hitler”.

Taylor’s support of Nazi Germany seemed unambiguous. “Hitler offered young men hope,” reads a message that he reposted. “Identity, responsibility, belonging, opportunity, but most of all, hope.”

He wrote many of these X posts on an account with the handle the_jackal123, which he changed to AaronEssexTay last month. Until then, Taylor made no attempt to hide his admiration of Hitler. On March 10th, he appeared in Reform’s Westminster office, where he posed with the party’s economics spokesman, Robert Jenrick.

In a video uploaded that day, Taylor said: “Today we’ve been volunteering at Reform UK headquarters, speaking to members up and down the country. What I can say is the momentum is just like it is in Colchester. So I can’t wait for the local elections on May 7th.”

His most recent post in support of Reform was on April 3rd, when he shared an Easter message from the party. We understand that he is now no longer a member of the party. What remains unclear is why Reform appealed to Taylor, an unabashed fan of Hitler.

Taylor has cleaned up his social media, deleting many of his posts, although he has not done a perfect job. At publication time there was still, on his X page, a repost of a video captioned “You’re blessed to be white. Be proud of it.” It is a montage of famous white people set to fast electronic music, culminating near the end with an image of Joseph Goebbels.

The revelations about Taylor will be embarrassing for Reform. The party’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf insisted last month that Reform has “the best vetting in the country”.

Taylor was photographed shaking hands with Yusuf at a press conference on February 23rd.

Ironically, Farage spoke at that event about how “nobody over the last quarter of the century has done more to defeat the genuine intolerant, abhorrent, extreme far right” than him.

Perhaps there is still some room for improvement?