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The white supremacist group The Base is to be banned in the UK, Priti Patel, the home secretary, has announced.
The Base is a predominantly US-based militant white supremacists organisation that wants to establish a white ethno-state. In early 2020, the Guardian unmasked its leader as US-born Rinaldo Nazzaro.
Natalie Elphicke’s apology (see 11.24am) coincided with Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, saying that Conservative MPs who saw Elphicke’s message last night and failed to call it out were also at fault. In a statement Rayner said:
While the country was commiserating our great team, Tory MPs were sneering at an inspirational player who stepped up to feed hungry kids when they voted to leave them without food.
Whether it’s their failure to support the vulnerable, or booing our boys after they have done our whole country proud, the nasty party is back.
