Ex-Tory chairwoman Baroness Warsi ‘quits’ Brexit campaign over claims of ‘lies and xenophobia’ – but Leave insist she never signed up in the first place
- Baroness Warsi’s high-profile ‘defection’ was greeted with bafflement
- Leave supporters could not remember her ever campaigning in their side
- Farage poster claiming migration was pushing continent to ‘breaking point’
Maverick Tory peer Baroness Warsi last night claimed to have switched to the Remain camp in protest over a controversial Nigel Farage immigration poster.
Tory peer Baroness Warsi claimed to have switched to the Remain camp
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However, her high-profile ‘defection’ was greeted with bafflement among Leave supporters – who could not remember her ever campaigning in their side.
Lady Warsi’s claims were made following a day when a Ukip poster claiming migration was pushing the continent to ‘breaking point’ were condemned by all sides.
Last night she told The Times: ‘That breaking point poster really was – for me – the breaking point to say: ‘I can’t go on supporting this’.
She added: ‘We all feel very passionately about these issues, it’s when you start to believe that any means are acceptable to achieve an end. It’s not an easy decision.
‘When I look at the people who are now saying the things they are saying and the people who are supporting that approach, the BNP, Donald Trump, Marine le Pen, Austria’s Freedom Party — every day it feels like the far right is coming out to stand by Leave.’
She later told the BBC: ‘This kind of nudge-nudge, wink-wink xenophobic racist campaign may be politically savvy or politically useful in the short term, but it causes long-term damage to communities.
‘The vision that me and other Brexiters who have been involved right from the outset, who had a positive outward-looking vision of what a Brexit vote might mean, unfortunately those voices have now been stifled.
‘What we see is the divisive campaign which has resulted in people like me and others who are deeply Eurosceptic and want to see a reformed relationship feel that they now have to leave Leave.’
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