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One of the accounts run by Kenyon was terminated by social media platform X in 2024. It is not known why Kenyon\u2019s X account was deleted, but campaign group\u00a0Hope Not Hate published<\/a>\u00a0a series of messages it says were sent from the handle. <\/p>\n Screenshots taken by Hope Not Hate show Kenyon interacted with Peter Imanuelsen \u2014 known as Peter Sweden on X. Imanuelsen has been accused of minimizing, and outright denying, the Holocaust. He has rejected<\/a> that characterization of his views.<\/p>\n Deleted posts\u00a0from Kenyon\u2019s account also include\u00a0calling abortion a \u201ccowardly act of murdering a defenceless baby<\/a>\u201d and suggesting women falsely claim to have been raped in order to terminate their pregnancies.<\/p>\n The campaign group Searchlight pointed out in 2024, when Kenyon first contested the seat, that he was one of 41 Reform candidates who were friends with Gary Raikes, a\u00a0former member of the far-right British National Party, on a now-deleted Facebook page.<\/p>\n Reform UK has denied this connection, saying Kenyon had never \u201cspoken or engaged with\u201d Gary Raikes and that when he was made aware of who Raikes was, Kenyon \u201cremoved him from his Facebook immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n Broadcaster Carol Vorderman \u2014 central to one of Kenyon\u2019s most widely criticized tweets \u2014 has demanded he apologize for \u201cdisgusting comments\u201d made about her on his former X account. Former Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner accused Kenyon<\/a> of targeting Vorderman with \u201cmisogynistic abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controversial posts One of the accounts run by Kenyon was terminated by social media platform X in 2024.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7331,7786,5172,157,3053,5248,142,2517,5,6],"class_list":["post-52371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-abortion","tag-andy-burnham","tag-angela-rayner","tag-brexit","tag-media","tag-referendum","tag-social-media","tag-sweden","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116663817519257191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}