Former Downing Street communications director under Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, was forced to issue an apology after spreading false claims about Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination.
Campbell, who now co-hosts the prominent Westminster establishment This Rest Is Politics podcast alongside neo-liberal former Conservative Party government minister Rory Stewart, claimed on the show that Charlie Kirk had argued that homosexuals should be stoned to death.
“The guy’s died and it’s tragic … but it’s important we don’t lose sight of some of the views he expressed because they were horrific,” he said. “I remember one clip I saw of him saying that, a literal reading of the bible, gay people should be stoned to death.”
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