Arron Banks apologises for xenophobic tweet targeting Merkel
by Mattha Busby from World news | The Guardian on (#4S5GR)
Leave.EU co-founder says it went too far after anger over anti-German meme
Arron Banks has apologised after Leave.EU tweeted a xenophobic meme of Angela Merkel that invoked Britain's world war victories to target the German chancellor.
The image was condemned by cross-party MPs and later deleted by the pro-Brexit campaign group, but the businessman and Leave.EU co-founder initially defended it. The meme, which was reminiscent of wartime propaganda posters, said: "We didn't win two world wars to be pushed around by a Kraut," alongside a photo of Merkel stood with her arm aloft.
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