4 h. ago Jailed tweeter Lucy Connolly gets hug from Nigel Farage as she tells Reform party conference: 'Unchecked immigration is a danger to my child and everyone else's child'

Lucy Connolly was released from prison last month after being jailed for stirring up racial hatred in a tweet where she called for 'mass deportation now' and told people to 'set fire' to migrant hotels.

Society

5 h. ago Lucy Connolly wants to work with Reform to overhaul prison system after being jailed for race hate tweet

Lucy Connolly was a ‘special guest’ at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham on Saturday

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5 h. ago Lucy Connolly says she wants to work with Reform on prisons overhaul after being jailed for race hate tweet

Lucy Connolly was a “special guest” at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham on Saturday

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6 h. ago Lucy Connolly tells Reform UK conference she would ‘love’ to work with party

The party’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, welcomed her comments in his speech immediately after her live interview for a podcast.

Politics

10 h. ago Mother arrested at Epping hotel protest feared she would be 'the next Lucy Connolly'

Sarah White, mother-of-five, said she feared she would be 'the next Lucy Connolly' after being arrested outside Epping District Council offices during an anti-immigration protest.

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55 h. ago This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10 | Owen Jones

A simple, terrible and obvious mistake is being made. The more Labour echoes Reform’s talking points, the more it strengthens themBritain isn’t sleepwalking into catastrophe; it’s charging towards it. Last year, a violent rightwing uprising tore through our streets – an attempted pogrom in which racists tried to burn asylum seekers alive, attacked homes and businesses thought to belong to migrants, petrol-bombed mosques and assaulted people of colour in broad daylight. That disgrace should hang permanently around the necks of the anti-migrant right, a warning of where scapegoating and toxic lies lead.Instead, the revolt succeeded. Anti-migrant rhetoric in politics and the press has grown more venomous. Reform UK now tops polls by a decisive margin. Its leader, Nigel Farage, raises the spectre of “major civil disorder” unless anti-migrant demands are met. Lucy Connolly – who was jailed after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire and is married to a former Conser...

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4 d. ago Epping migrant hotel protest organiser, 40, is charged after climbing council building and unfurling Union Jack flag

Mother-of-five Sarah White, 40, was arrested at Epping District Council offices on Sunday night when she displayed the flag from the steps.

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9 d. ago Politicians given warning from voters over Lucy Connolly after vile asylum tweet

A More in Common poll found fewer than one in five people (18%) think politicians should cosy up to Lucy Connolly, while more than half (51%) think they should keep their distance

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1 week ago The puppet masters and narcissists are feasting on racist Lucy Connolly

She delivered on the xenophobic checklist on her tour of the right wing and extremist media

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1 week ago Lucy Connolly's jailing over social media post to be discussed in US Congress during Nigel Farage testimony

The mother was behind bars for more than a year after admitting making the inflammatory post on X in the wake of the Southport attacks in July last year.

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage must not be allowed to slander Britain as broken

Editorial: The failures of asylum policy do not mean that this country is descending into violent disorder – or that Lucy Connolly is a martyr. Truth, justice and fairness must remain cornerstones for the UK

Politics

2 w. ago Lucy Connolly claims she was Starmer’s ‘political prisoner’ after release from jail for race hate post

Connolly said Donald Trump’s lawyers are ‘keen to speak’ after she was released from prison on Thursday

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2 w. ago Lucy Connolly says she will meet Trump officials for talks on free speech

The wife of a Tory councillor – who was was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers – was released from prison on Thursday.

Politics

2 w. ago Lucy Connolly considering legal action against police after prison release

The 42-year-old was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online in the aftermath of the Southport murders last year.

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2 w. ago Jailed Lucy Connolly to meet Trump's team as she considers legal action

Conolly had been jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online

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2 w. ago I was Keir Starmer's political prisoner, says Lucy Connolly after being freed as she reveals she's set to meet Trump officials and is planning to sue police

Lucy Connolly, 42, revealed she is planning legal action against the police as she told of her 377-day prison ordeal for the first time.

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2 w. ago Lucy Connolly invited to talks with Trump envoy after release from prison for inciting racial hatred

'I'm just a woman from Northampton', the childminder pleas in a newspaper interview as she claims she was 'singled out'

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2 w. ago Lucy Connolly to consider legal action against police after prison release

The 42-year-old was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online in the aftermath of the Southport murders last year.

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2 w. ago So was Lucy Connolly really such a danger that she had to spend a year behind bars? JAN MOIR

After serving 40 per cent of her 31-month sentence, Lucy Connolly walked free from prison on Thursday morning.

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2 w. ago Lucy Connolly's jail torment revealed: Truth about the middle

Roughly handcuffed, she was bundled to another wing housing violent inmates and treated so forcefully that she was left in agony.

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