Nigel Farage has been accused of inciting racism after he sensationally claimed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to be a ‘far-left Marxist organisation whose chief aim is to close down police forces’ in a blazing television row this morning over the toppling of a slave trader statue in Bristol. The Brexit Party leader also accused the group of ‘unpicking history’ and compared the anti-racism group to terrorist organisation The Taliban.
The accusations were made in a fiery row on Good Morning Britain today, in which he was debating the removal of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol during anti-racism protests over the weekend.