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The Conservative Party has been urged to sack one of its candidates after a Byline Times investigation found he had praised Tommy Robinson, demanded mass deportations and called the party’s former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a “traitorous scumbag” who will be “jailed the second we take power.”
Nathan Smith, who is standing to become a Conservative councillor in Harrow in next month’s local elections, also posted his support for Rupert Lowe, who leads the far-right Restore Britain party, describing him as “the only MP who fights for us”.
The revelations follow the party being forced to suspend another one of their candidates in Harrow, William Jackson, after a Byline Times investigation revealed he had posted a series of racist Tweets to British MPs demanding they “go back to Pakistan”.
Jackson was suspended by Kemi Badenoch, pending an investigation, and has since deleted his account on Elon Musk’s X platform.
Now the social media posts of another one of the party’s Harrow candidates has come under scrutiny.
In one post on X, Nathan Smith, who is standing for the West Harrow seat, backed Tommy Robinson after footage emerged of the aftermath of an incident in which a man was seriously injured at St Pancras station in London, following an alleged assault by Robinson.
“Good on Tommy. No doubt this wanker deserved it” Smith Tweeted.
Robinson was later arrested over the incident but not charged, after the alleged victim declined to make a statement.
In other messages Smith praised Robinson for his “massive role in bringing the grooming gangs to light” and in another he shared a Tweet by the X platform’s Grok AI bot, which suggested that he supported “figures like Farage and Robinson” and was at “92 on the scale” of far left to far right, with the caption “#winning”
As well as backing the leader of a rival far-right political party in Rupert Lowe, Smith also accused the Conservative Party’s former leader Boris Johnson of betraying his own country, while demanding he be locked up.
“In the nicest way @BorisJohnson we know your legacy you traitorous scumbag” he Tweeted in February 2025, while attacking the former Prime Minister’s immigration policies, which he defined as the “Boris-wave”
In another post last September he replied to a Tweet by Johnson with the message: “Boris you are a scumbag who will be jailed the second we take power.
“You attempted vaccine passports, locked down an entire generation of young people and imported 3M net people against the will of the public.
“You’ll be lucky to avoid a more serious sentence, TRAITOR.”
Another post included a call for the “mass deportation” of Afghans living in the UK.
The Conservatives’ opponents demanded Smith be removed as a candidate.
“These posts are disgraceful. Praising far-right figures such as Tommy Robinson, calling for mass deportations and using abusive language is completely incompatible with representing a London community” a London Labour spokesperson said.
“People in Harrow will be rightly concerned that someone with this record is standing to represent them. It speaks to a serious failure of judgment that he was selected in the first place.
“Kemi Badenoch should step in immediately and remove him as a candidate. Anything less sends the message that this kind of behaviour is acceptable in today’s Conservative Party.”
The Conservative party was contacted for comment about Smith’s Tweets
Kemi Badenoch’s party was last week forced to suspend another candidate standing for the party in Harrow, William Jackson, after a Byline Times investigation revealed his history of racist Tweets towards British ethnic minority MPs.
Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to ‘Go Back to Pakistan’
EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months
Jackson had told the British-born MPs to “go back to Pakistan” and Bangladesh, and suggested that prominent British ethnic minority celebrities were not British.
He was suspended by the party pending an investigation, with a spokesperson telling Byline Times that the posts were “wholly unacceptable”.
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