by Ruby Cline, Telegraph
Hope Not Hate webpage featured content suggesting ‘intolerant attitude’
A Left-wing campaign group has deleted a web page that accused Ann Widdecombe of a “long history” of homophobia.
The 78-year-old former Conservative minister was killed last week in an attack police are investigating as a potential act of terror.
A 28-year-old man from Rotherham who was arrested on suspicion of murder and terrorism offences remains in custody, and police are continuing to investigate if other Reform UK figures were targeted.
Before her death, Hope Not Hate maintained a webpage titled “Who is Ann Widdecombe?”, which listed what the campaign group called a tendency to embrace “dangerous and divisive politics”.
The webpage said: “Despite remaking her image in recent years through her appearances on reality TV shows, Widdecombe has a long history of homophobic and sexist remarks that jar with [Nigel] Farage’s claims that his party is ‘intolerant of intolerance’.
“Indeed, embracing the dangerous and divisive politics of her new vehicle, in the first Brexit Party speech in the European Parliament, Widdecombe made a risible comparison of Britain’s departure from the EU to the emancipation of slaves.”