A text message from a Ukip press officer has caused controversy by referring to a female journalist as being “of some form of ethnic extraction”.
Gawain Towler, UKIP’s head of media and a candidate for the European Parliament, meant to send the text message about the Evening Standard‘s Kiran Randhawa to a colleague but accidentally sent it to someone else.
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