The treasurer of Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party has been dismissed, after he was revealed to have made a series of comments on social media invoking antisemitic tropes.
Michael McGough, who previously served as a senior member of Ukip and stood as a parliamentary candidate for the party three times, quit the party last December in protest against what he described as the “national socialist…toxic” direction it had taken under its new leader, Gerard Batten.
However, social media posts, discovered by the Guardian, showed that Mr McGough had made a series of posts in 2017 about Jews, Muslims and other minority groups.
According to the Guardian, Mr McGough described David and Ed Miliband, who are both Jewish, and Peter Mandelson, whose father is Jewish, as having “the shortest of roots. Transient folk, they have no loyalty to the UK.”
