George Abaraonye was elected in June to be the Oxford Union president for Hilary term 2026. He is a PPE student at University College and was the Union’s director of press when he became president-elect. The Oxford Student reported that he ran independently ‘under the #RESET slate and endorsed by the #HOPE slate’.

He has certainly called into question his suitability for the role of president, given his comments on the Charlie Kirk assassination this week.

His response to the murder of Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus has been published and circulated widely. Screenshots from WhatsApp and Instagram show him writing ‘Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s fucking go’ and ‘Charlie Kirk got shot loool’.

Not being quite up on Gen Z patois, I had to look up the precise meaning of the fir

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