Lewis Goodall

And I think the truth about this is it's not just whether he's friends of a fascist.

You know, that was the first thing that followed him when he was announced.

It's not just that he's slightly sexist.

It's that he sounds utterly creepy to women.

And once you understand the sort of the value, the horror of what he's actually saying...

I just think it sort of calls on not just women voters, but anyone to say, oh, my God, sorry, you're talking about abortions as vanity projects.

You're talking about abortions as things that slags have.

Now, there is a whole argument.

There is a whole argument, a proper argument.

political debate to be had about the length of gestation in abortion.

And that argument is going on, as we know, the world over.

And there are many ways to have it in a really thoughtful and sort of heartfelt way if you think, as many people do, that abortion is murder.

But to come at it just by calling women slags, by come at it calling them a vanity project, I just wonder what you are doing to your own vote if you're not absolutely tanking it.

Because I can't

I just can't imagine a world in which, you know, men think that's a particularly attractive way of talking about women either.

Or whether you think that you're kind of representing somebody to go into parliament for you that is going to advocate with a kind of proper argument behind what they're saying.

So this is starting to build into a really interesting question, which is how reform respond to him.

Do they get rid of him?

Do they just say, OK, you know, we thought he was a cheeky, chappy plumber, but actually he's got some horribly dodgy, creepy views.

And indeed, I think Zia Youssef, who's the chairman, has come out straight away and said this is not reform policy.