Conservative leadership candidate Mel Stride condemns “deeply irresponsible” comments made by Nigel Farage after the stabbing of three girls in Southport. The Reform UK leader posted messages on social media that seemed to question information provided by police over the suspect. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The problem is that Nigel Farage very quickly and very early on questioned the truthfulness
00:05of what the police were saying at the point that that terrible, terrible event happened
00:11in Southport. That fuelled conspiracy theories, that stoked things up. He also made a link between
00:17that incident and the terrible situation of the attack on a uniformed soldier in Kent
00:24about a week earlier and questioning whether we were being told the full truth about whether
00:28terrorism might have been involved or not. All of those things are deeply irresponsible.