‘Just shut up’: Backlash after Laurence Fox boasts he broke lockdown
The controversialist added that the NHS "isn't fit for purpose" if it can't cope with Covid-19.
The controversialist added that the NHS "isn't fit for purpose" if it can't cope with Covid-19.
Fox - the actor turned culture warrior - shared a screenshot of the reporter’s Twitter profile, adding: “So glad I’m not paying for this anymore.”
This tweet should be 2020’s Christmas Number 1
Fox said he was "let go" after he told an audience member on Question Time that he considers it racist when someone says he has benefitted from white privilege.
He said: "I may have had to endure homophobic bullying as a child, but I will not tolerate it as an adult."
"I adore Sainsbury's trifle, you can't beat it, but after this I will just have to go without it. I agree with Laurence completely."
The actor, who describes himself as a "Fierce Liberal", told his 238,000 Twitter followers that he'll never shop in Sainsbury's again.
Fox said that the party - provisionally called “Reclaim” - would provide a platform for those “tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against”.
A source close to Fox said it had been a ‘very difficult period for him and his family’.
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