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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Matt Watts and Mathilde Grandjean

Charlie Kirk London vigil: Hundreds pay respects to MAGA influencer as speakers call for ‘war on evil’

Hundreds of people attended a vigil for Charlie Kirk in central London where speakers hailed him as a “Christian martyr” and called for people to wage a “war on evil”.

Father-of-two Mr Kirk, 31, a Donald Trump ally and co-founder and chief executive of the youth right-wing organisation Turning Point USA, was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University show on Wednesday, in what authorities called a political assassination.

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