Reform were tonight silent on calls to suspend a candidate who claimed on social media that banks were 'owned by the Jews'.

Angela Carter-Begbie will appear on the ballot in Queen's Park and Maida Vale – despite calls from her Tory opponent for Nigel Farage to withdraw the party's support for her.

The Reform candidate – who was last month exposed for comparing the Covid-19 vaccine rollout to the Holocaust – last year said during a discussion about funding Ukraine: 'Because the banks want to make it a new place. They are owned by the Jews.'

Samia Hersi, her Conservative rival in the London constituency, said: 'The Reform Party and Nigel Farage must suspend Angela Carter-Begbie as their candidate in light of these racist and anti-Semitic comments. 

'This is awful and there should be no space for anti-Semitism and racism in politics.'

A spokesman for Campaign Against Anti-Semitism said: 'The Jewish community has long been subjected to medieval conspiratorial accusations of controlling banks and the economy. 

'Such tropes have no place in 21st century Britain. 

'The Party should urgently investigate.'

Neither Reform nor Ms Carter-Begbie could be reached for ­comment yesterday.

Nigel Farage has expressed 'regret' at Reform UK 'letting some bad people' stand as candidates at the election.

And he caused outrage last month when he suggested that the West had provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine with the expansion of the EU and Nato.

Rishi Sunak later said that Mr Farage was an 'appeaser' of ­Russian president Vladimir Putin, while Boris Johnson branded Reform 'Putinistas' earlier this week.

Ms Carter-Begbie has also described the King as 'weak' on social media in the past, suggesting that he was under the control of global elites.

And, last April, she commented on the vaccine rollout: 'I have said the behaviour of the jab was slowly repeating the holocaust movement. Put people in camps, make them lose there [sic] jobs, make them homeless. 

'Holocaust is a name of a movement.' 

It comes as her fellow Reform candidate Darren Ingrouille, standing in Chelmsford, was revealed to have compared people with autism to 'vegetables'.

Responding to a user who described himself as an 'autistic father of twin boys', the candidate said in a now-deleted post: 'I can understand that you have learning difficulties, many of us reasoned humans would have a better perspective on this... Keep plugging away; or just keep favouring your own kind; vegetables.'

Former minister Vicky Ford, the Tory candidate in Chelmsford, said on Wednesday night: 'Every part of me is so disgusted by this. No words.'

Mr Ingrouille also previously told a woman: 'Please don't breed, whatever you do.'

He did not respond to a request for comment last night, but on Tuesday shared a post reading: 'There is now a coordinated campaign being run by the Conservatives via CCHQ, with collaboration from the corrupt MSM [mainstream media], to discredit Reform UK.'

The party has already dropped several candidates over offensive comments or past support for far-Right organisations, with Mr Farage blaming a vetting company for poor background checks.

The Reform leader last night said: 'It's all gone wrong in the last few months. I regret that I didn't quite realise what the extent of the problem was a month ago, but I'll sort it out.

'I sorted it out in Ukip, I had no problems with it in the Brexit Party. From Friday my first two big jobs are to professionalise the party and to democratise it.'