Farage calls for UKIP leader's ouster over far-right links
Source: Associated Press
Updated 10:42 am CST, Friday, November 23, 2018
LONDON (AP) — Former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage called Friday for the party's current chief to be ousted for appointing far-right activist Tommy Robinson as an adviser.
UKIP chief Gerard Batten has named English Defense League founder Robinson — whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon — his special adviser on "rape gangs and prison reform."
Under Farage, the Euroskeptic party played a major role in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. He stepped down after helping lead the "leave" side to victory in the 2016 EU membership referendum.
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Robinson is a street protester and online commentator who claims he is exposing "Muslim rape gangs" ignored by the media. He has built a large online following with links to international white nationalist and far-right movements.
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Robinson in a picture from his book, which he said shows the results of
beatings from Muslim gangs while "just going about daily life"