Nigel Farage has not seen eye-to-eye with his former colleague Rupert Lowe about much lately, but the outrage sparked by the imprisonment of Lucy Connolly has them both on the same page. The wife of a Conservative councillor was jailed last year over an offensive tweet about the riots of last summer – and last week, her appeal against her sentence was quashed. Now, in a London speech, the Reform UK leader has condemned Connolly’s incarceration, with the Clacton MP telling reporters: ‘I want to make it absolutely clear: Lucy Connolly should not be in prison.’
The 42-year-old mother was sentenced to 31 months imprisonment in October after posting on social media about the riots sparked by the horrific Southport murders. Taking to Twitter at the time, the wife of Northampton councillor Ray Connolly fumed:
Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b******s for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them.
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