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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Brexit campaigners at odds over ‘xenophobic’ poster
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFormer London mayor Boris Johnson criticizes a poster showing a column of non-white migrants trying to enter the European Union, a view that underscores a deepening rift between campaigners promoting Britain’s exit from the 28-nation bloc.
Johnson, one of the most prominent campaigners on the “leave” side, is distancing himself from UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, whose “Breaking Point” poster has been widely criticized.
New #UKIP Poster – Breaking Point pic.twitter.com/vueSdEoe8H
— UK Independence Party (@UKIP) June 16, 2016
Britain’s anti-EU campaigners have long been bitterly divided. Johnson’s Vote Leave won Electoral Commission approval to be the official standard-bearer of the campaign. Farage, a member of the European Parliament, has fought on nonetheless.
Johnson tells LBC radio the poster has “xenophobic undertones” and says “my campaign is based on fairness.”
— AP
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