LONDON: Up to a dozen newly elected councillors from Reform UK have been accused of posting Islamophobic and far-right content on social media, .

It comes a week after the party made a major breakthrough in local elections across the country, winning 677 of the more than 1,600 contested seats.

Reform UK councillors at three country councils have shared social media content from Britain First, a far-right party known for its anti-Islam views.

Paul Harrison, who was elected to Leicestershire鈥檚 county council, retweeted and voted 鈥測es鈥� to an X poll asking if the UK should conduct mass deportations.

The post was accompanied by an image, generated by artificial intelligence, of Muslim men holding Pakistani flags.

Reform UK officials are facing greater scrutiny in the wake of the local elections, with many of the social media posts being revealed by counter-extremism campaign group Hope Not Hate.

Its director of campaigns, Georgie Laming, said: 鈥�(Party leader) Nigel Farage has claimed that Reform UK have the 鈥榤ost in-depth vetting procedure鈥� of any party. Our investigation shows that their processes leave much to be desired.

鈥淣ot only have they admitted using 鈥楢I techniques and other things鈥� to do the vetting, but Reform UK continue to shirk responsibility for their candidates鈥� online behaviour. They have yet to drop any of the candidates that have been exposed.鈥�

The campaign group previously uncovered Islamophobic content posted by Reform candidates on social media, as well as far-right conspiracies and support for extremist figures including Tommy Robinson and David Irving.