Twitter bans Tommy Robinson and Ukip candidate Carl Benjamin's campaign accounts

Twitter has banned the Euro election campaign accounts of Ukip candidate Carl Benjamin and far-right extremist Tommy Robinson. Ukip today refused to dump Benjamin after a video emerged of him using a variety of racial slurs. Benjamin, a vlogger who calls himself “Sargon of Akkad”, had already been banned from Twitter in 2017 for violating the platform's rules on targeted abuse. And Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was permanently banned in March 2018 for violating its rules on 'hateful conduct'. Benjamin rose to notoriety after Tweeting a message to Labour MP Jess Philips, saying 'I wouldn't even rape you.'