GB. ENGLAND. Wiltshire. Salisbury. 2024. Reform candidate Julian Malins KC (left) talks to a Labour helper in the city centre. In the midst of the electioneering before the July 4th vote, Mr Malins told a hustings event on Sunday June 30th, (and reported in a Sunday Times article), 'I have actually met Putin and had a ten-minute chat with him and he seemed very good. He is not the Austrian gentleman with the moustache come alive again.'