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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2

Young man in a dark T-shirt and jacket photographed in front of a river somewhere
Jack Anderton helped to establish Nigel Farage’s hugely succesful TikTok account. Photograph: Facebook

An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.

Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

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