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The political right is continuing to throw a tantrum over Labour’s Sadiq Khan beating Conservative candidate Susan
Hall and securing a historic third term as mayor of London, to the extent that even Twitter/X founder Elon Musk has reacted to the latest elections across the pond.
On Saturday, Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox – who failed to submit the right paperwork to run for mayor and then failed to get elected in the London-wide assembly vote – penned a tweet in which he fumed that a number of elected individuals are all Muslim (even when some of them aren’t).
He wrote: “The Mayor of London is a Muslim. The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim. The Mayor of Leeds is Muslim. Mayor of Blackburn - Muslim. The mayor of Sheffield is a Muslim. The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim. The mayor of Luton is a Muslim. The mayor of Oldham is Muslim. The mayor of Rochdale is Muslim,
Fox appears to have recycled a viral post which was fact-checked by Full Fact back in 2017. Now, Twitter/X’s Community Notes feature has seen users point out a number of inaccuracies with the ex-GB News host’s post.
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Fox goes on to claim “there are over 3,000 mosques in England” – Full Fact, responding to a version which gave the same figure for the whole UK, said “the true figure is likely to be between 1,000 and 2,000”.
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