‘Sexist’ Robert Kenyon flees from female journalist

Robert Kenyon is Reform UK’s candidate in the crucial Makerfield by-election. As we’ve reported, Kenyon has made a number of comments he’s struggled to defend, including that he’s a “sexist.” This is partly because his views are indefensible, and partly because he can barely string a sentence together.

The lad does have a strategy for dealing with hard questions, though, and it’s to run away:

Reform UK’s #Makerfield Candidate @RobKenyonReform can’t answer a simple question.

This isn’t new politics, it’s dodging simple questions.

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— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) June 4, 2026

Oh, and by ‘hard questions’, we basically mean ‘any questions.’

Run, Rob run

In the video above, Beth Rigby of Sky News approaches Kenyon, who is standing to the side of his van with an umbrella. Robert Kenyon’s willingness to be pictured with an umbrella demonstrates he’s something of a modern misogynist, because one of the old guard would never be seen dead with such a contraption – especially not when walking the short distance from the van to the office. Don’t believe us? This is from the Telegraph in 2014:

Umbrellas annoy me. I’ve always thought that umbrellas were inherently unmanly. As undignified in a man’s hand as they are in his cocktail. I think slightly less of a man if I see him using an umbrella. I know, I know: it’s my problem, not his. He’s just trying to stay dry. But why is he so obsessed with this precious dryness? And is an umbrella really the best way? What’s wrong with a hat, a waterproof jacket, waiting for the downpour to pass or, hell, just getting wet?

Britain is a ridiculous country full of wet and angry, Reform-curious, men, and it always has been. Back to the video, Rigby asks Robert Kenyon:

Why should women in Makerfield vote for you, Rob?

It’s a good question, because Robert Kenyon has also said things like this:

Reproductive rights? Women’s rights? They can dress it up all they want, they are deciding to kill a baby inside the womb…What they mean is they want to shag anyone they want and if they get caught they get a second chance and treat it [sic] as a secondary last chance form of contraception. They ain’t kidding anyone.

And this:

I’d hazard a guess that the majority [of abortions] are for vanity purposes like unwanted pregnancies.

“Vanity,” he said. The reality is women want to be able to choose when they bring a life into the world; not that they’re worried their favourite dress might not fit.

On the topic of vanity, Ribert Kenyon clearly isn’t someone who cares about how he looks or sounds to other people. As the Guardian reported:

In 2021, Kenyon responded to a social media post about [Carol] Vorderman in which another user wrote: “My god I’d love to smell and lick your arsehole”, by saying: “He’s only saying what we’re all thinking”.

A man with pride in how he comes across would not have said this in public.

Divisive Reform

In response to Rigby, Kenyon responded:

If you speak to the Press Office.

He didn’t expand on what would happen if she spoke to them, so Rigby pressed on:

Why should women in Makerfield vote for you, Rob, when you said you were a sexist? Why should women vote for you when you said that you were sexist and that they can’t drive?

As we reported previously, Kenyon was a reservist in the Army Reserves. Despite his party suggesting otherwise, Robert Kenyon never actually deployed anywhere. Given the way he fled the scene with nothing to show for it, though, you’d be mistaken for thinking he served in Afghanistan.

There’s no doubt an audience for Robert Kenyon’s brand of umbrella-owning misogyny — the problem is that audience probably doesn’t include women — i.e. the majority gender in the UK.

Featured image via the Canary