In the north west, the Brexit Party’s top candidate for the European elections appears to be breezing through a row about her former comments on the IRA.
For two decades, Claire Fox was a core member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which defended the 1993 IRA bombing of Warrington – a town in the European constituency that she is standing to represent. Following the attack – which killed 12-year-old Tim Parry and three-year-old Johnathan Ball, and injured 56 others – the party’s official newsletter wrote that it defended “the right of the Irish people to take whatever measures necessary in their struggle for freedom”.
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