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Farage excuses ex-chair liking antisemitic post about Robert Jenrick
Nigel Farage has said Reform's ex-chairman made "one little mistake" by liking an antisemitic social media post about senior Tory Robert Jenrick and his Jewish wife.
Asked to respond to Mr Jenrick calling for Zia Yusuf, who heads up Reform's 'DOGE' unit, to be sacked over the post, Mr Farage told Sky News: "Everyone makes mistakes. "Robert Jenrick in government made a lot more mistakes than Zia making one little mistake for which he immediately apologised." Politics latest: Labour should let water companies 'go bust', Farage says An anonymous X account posted a video appearing to show Mr Yusuf's account had liked a post on Friday which said: "Reminder that Jenrick is a traitorous Zogbot with a Jewish wife and family." A Zogbot is slang for a conspiracy theory claiming that Jews secretly control Western governments.
Mr Yusuf, a multimillionaire businessman, said one of his team "accidentally pressed like on an awful antisemitic tweet" and said: "I apologise for this." He said the post is "equally racist against me" as it refers to "brown savages". "Clearly it was not intentional.
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