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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Aneesa Ahmed

Gary Neville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’

Gary Neville
Gary Neville blamed ‘angry, middle-aged white men’ for growing divisions. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

Gary Neville has revealed he removed a union flag from one of his Manchester development sites because it was being “used in a negative fashion”, as he urged his followers to question what it means to be patriotic.

In a video posted on Friday, the day after a deadly attack at a Manchester synagogue, the former footballer turned property developer said he believed that “we’re all being turned on each other”, attributing much of the blame for the divide to “angry, middle-aged white men … who know exactly what they’re doing”.

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