This is the last article you can read this month
You can read more article this month
You can read more articles this month
Sorry your limit is up for this month
Reset on:
Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here
A Ukip member featured in the party’s EU election broadcast has been suspended after expressing “repellent” racist views on Twitter.
The party admitted the faux pas yesterday.
Andre Lampitt appeared in a builder’s hard hat in the Ukip film shown to TV viewers complaining that “since the lads from Eastern Europe” had arrived in Britain and undercut him, he had found it a “real struggle” to provide for his family.
But leader Nigel Farage was forced to axe him as a local election candidate after his social media posts were flagged up.
The messages have been deleted but a Ukip spokesman said they were aware of at least six posts expressing “various extreme racist views” including anti-Islamic sentiments.
“We are deeply shocked that Mr Lampitt has expressed such repellent views,” he said.
“His membership of the party has been suspended immediately pending a full disciplinary process.”
