Shortly after Bob Crow’s death was announced on Tuesday, Nigel Farage sent the following tweet: ‘Sad at the death of Bob Crow. I liked him and he also realised working-class people were having their chances damaged by the EU.’
Cue a predictable storm of Twitter outrage. Farage was attacked for trying to make political capital out of Crow’s death.
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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.
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