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Kemi Badenoch has suspended one of her Conservative candidates in the upcoming local elections after a Byline Times investigation revealed he has posted a series of racist Tweets, including demands for British MPs to “go back to Pakistan”.
William Jackson, who is listed as standing for the party in North Harrow in London, repeatedly posted messages to non-white British MPs of Asian origin, demanding that they leave the country, or be deported.
The messages, which were sent in reply to posts on Elon Musk’s X platform, include:
- Multiple posts telling Apsana Begum MP, who was born in London, to “go back to Bangladesh”
- Posts telling Lancashire born Adnan Hussain MP that “we need to bully you back to Pakistan”
- Posts telling Zarah Sultana, who was born in Birmingham, to “go back to Pakistan” and calls for her to be deported
- A post telling the Bedfordshire-born Labour MP Jeevun Sandher that he is not British
- A post telling the Bradford-born Labour MP Imran Hussain that he is also not British.
- Posts suggesting that the British boxer Anthony Joshua and the singer songwriter Dua Lipa are not British.
- A reply to a post appearing to show a black woman committing a crime, with the response “windrush working out well then”
