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Leader of Farage’s Brexit party quits after racist social media posts exposed

The leader of Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party has dramatically quit today following a HOPE not hate investigation revealing her numerous Islamophobic statements and extensive retweeting of far-right figures – including a neo-Nazi – on her Twitter feed. A HOPE not hate analysis of tweets posted to Catherine Blaiklock’s now-removed Twitter account revealed multiple examples of anti-Muslim statements, including claims that Islam is “incompatible with liberal democracy”, that “Islam = submission – mostly to raping men it seems”and is a “threat to women,...

PM asks EU for three month Brexit delay & hints she might quit if delayed further

Prime Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to ask for a three month delay to Brexit. She has sent a letter to Europe asking for Brexit delay until June 30. The UK is due to leave the EU next Friday, on 29 March, May says in a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk she needs more time to get her withdrawal deal passed and ratified by Parliament. May seems to threaten to quit as PM if MPs...

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