The Mumford & Sons co-founder who quit the band after receiving vitriolic abuse for supporting a conservative journalist has revealed he has family members who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps
In an essay published online, banjo player Winston Marshall said that leaving the band was necessary because his political views were causing the group too much trouble.
Mr Marshall was labelled a “facist” by online trolls after tweeting praise for a book about far-left extremism written by the right-wing journalist Andy Ngo.
Despite holding “centrist” and “liberal” political views, the musician said he was pilloried by a “viral mob” accusing him of endorsing the far-right.
