Olympic gold-winning Reform mayor Luke Campbell 'showed naked pictures of himself to shocked female member of staff'

The Reform Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire is under police investigation over allegations he showed naked pictures of himself to a female member of staff.

Luke Campbell, 39, is alleged to have shown a woman four fully ‘naked and sexualised images’ of himself.

Sharing a nude picture with intent to cause alarm, distress or humiliation is a criminal offence known as ‘cyberflashing’.

The woman claimed the Mayor and ex-Olympic boxer called her over to his desk and showed her the pictures on his computer.

According to written evidence, woman was left feeling ‘shocked, embarrassed and humiliated’ after the London 2012 gold medallist and his male colleagues laughed at her reaction.

In her written evidence, the council officer said: ‘In my view, this was unwanted conduct of a sexual nature which violated my dignity and created a humiliating, degrading and offensive working environment.’

In a second document, a witness confirmed that they saw Campbell and two male colleagues ushering a female officer to look at his laptop, which showed an image of a naked man with a tattoo, and that the incident left the witness feeling ‘uneasy’.

It is understood he was interviewed under caution by Humberside police earlier this month. No charges or arrests have been made.

Luke Campbell, 39, the Reform UK mayor for Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority (HEYCA) called a senior female employee over to his desk and showed her four 'naked and sexualised images' of himself on a computer, it is claimed

Mr Campbell won a gold medal in the London 2012 Olympic Games for boxing and has also been awarded an MBE

Three weeks after the alleged incident, the female officer was told via video call that the offer of a permanent role had been withdrawn, according to the Observer.     

It is awkward timing for Nigel Farage’s party, which is engulfed in a scandal following an ITV undercover sting showing Reform councillors using racist and sexist slurs.

A summer of being dogged by bitter infighting, scandals and another undercover sting has dented Mr Farage’s popularity.

His insurgent Right-wing party was last week leapfrogged in the polls by Kemi Badenoch for the first time since 2025.

After the Tory leader’s well received conference speech, three separate ballots this week put her party in second place ahead of Mr Farage’s outfit. More in Common put Labour on 28pts, the Conservatives on 24pts and Reform on 21pts.

And a mega poll in Saturday's Daily Mail showed more Brits see the Tories as the main opposition to Labour over Reform – seen as an important milestone in the return to two party politics  

Mr Campbell is said to have been interviewed under caution by Humberside Police earlier this month, as reported by The Observer. He has not been arrested or charged with any offence.

Documents seen by the paper show the woman was left feeling 'shocked, embarrassed and humiliated' after she was shown the images, only for Mr Campbell and other male staff members to laugh at her reaction.

'I was deliberately exposed to naked and sexualised images involving the mayor in the workplace, without my consent, and was laughed at when I was visibly embarrassed,' documents show she said, adding that the experience 'violated my dignity'.

A witness is said to have seen the incident and provided an account in a separate document. 

Other incidents involving the mayor have also been alleged, including that he once lowered the waistband of his trousers to show a tan line and a tattoo on his lower abdomen.

The matter is now the subject of internal proceedings after the 'humiliated' woman was told that her offer of permanent employment was withdrawn three weeks after the alleged cyberflashing.

It is understood these proceedings are being run by HEYCA, after the alleged victim asserted she had lost the offer due to a 'rejection of unwanted sexual contact'.

In a statement, a spokesman said: 'As with all public authorities, the combined authority has a standards process that can be engaged to deal with complaints about members and a complaints procedure that can be used to deal with complaints about officers. 

'The standards process and the complaints procedure must be carried out in a fair and independent manner.'

A Reform UK spokesman said: 'Luke firmly denies the allegations. They come from a disgruntled employee attempting to leverage a settlement in a meritless workplace dispute.'

Mr Campbell's office previously came under scrutiny after it was reported he was 'at war' with his staff, who accused him of creating a 'toxic working environment'.

He reportedly demanded that five members of staff resign in August last year after accusing civil servants of deliberately undermining him. 

Mr Campbell is believed to have butted heads with officials shortly after taking office, following an allegation he tried to claim first-class train tickets on expenses.

The claim – which was denied by Reform UK – would have been in breach of government rules.

However, the row led to a review by an independent remuneration panel, which later clarified in a recommendation that he could only claim for standard class travel.

Things escalated further when Mr Campbell took 'huge issue' after he was told his ambition to hire Reform digital strategist Jack Anderton, 23, and ex-UKIP official Robin Hunter-Clarke, to serve as political advisers had been barred.