As regular Stanmore Politics readers may have noticed, there has been some controversy in the aftermath of last week’s Harrow East hustings.
Some in the audience felt Labour candidate Tony McNulty had slammed his UKIP opponent, Abhijit Pandya, as being ‘a BNP man in a suit’.
However McNulty has since asked to clarify his comments. He told Stanmore Politics:
“I said that given his comments, it was no wonder that people called the UKIP the BNP in a suit.
The incumbent MP also said he did not remark on Pandya’s roots, but wanted to make clear that ‘multiculturalism is about everyone celebrating their roots within a British context – not separatism’.
In 2005 UKIP won just 757 votes in Harrow East, a 1.8 per cent share.
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