27 June 2018

Anti-Islamic election candidate suspended from business group

For Britain member Kevin Brack has been suspended from the Cockerton Community and Business Group after featuring them on leaflets distributed to households around Darlington.

Acting quickly to distance themselves from the contentious politics of the anti-Muslim For Britain party, members said that Mr Brack had no permission to use the group in his campaign to represent the Cockerton ward in an upcoming by-election.

The CCABG issued a statement online saying: “Please be assured that this has been done completely without the permission of the group and the group are not connected in any way to any political party.

“We are in the process of finding out how this has happened and will make sure that it doesn’t happen again. [The Northern Echo] Read more