Britain’s UKIP Drops Candidate for Saying He’d Shoot Rival
The U.K. Independence Party has suspended a candidate in Britain’s election after he said he would shoot his Conservative opponent.
Robert Blay was recorded by an undercover reporter saying of Conservative candidate Ranil Jayawardena that he would “put a bullet between his eyes” if Jayawardena became prime minister
The Daily Mirror ran footage of Blay making the comments and saying Jayawardena, who has Sri Lankan heritage, was “not British enough to be in our Parliament.”
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