Nigel Farage quits LBC radio show amid backlash over Black Lives Matter comments
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Nigel Farage is leaving LBC with immediate effect, the radio station has announced. “We thank Nigel for the enormous contribution he has made to LBC and wish him well.” It follows a backlash over his comments about the Black Lives Matter organisation. After protests erupted in the UK over the death of George Floyd in America, Mr Farage claimed a “new form of the Taliban was born in the UK” and described Black Lives Matter as ”a far-left Marxist organisation that wants to abolish the police and dismantle capitalism”.
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