Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch has demanded the prosecution of rap trio Kneecap after video emerged of the band allegedly advocating for the loss of life of Tory MPs.
Footage of the group at a November 2023 gig seems to indicate one member saying: “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.”
Police are investigating – and are additionally assessing footage reportedly from a gig a yr later in London’s Kentish City Discussion board.
Within the November 2024 video, a member of the band seems to shout “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” – referencing teams that are banned as terrorist organisations within the UK.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman mentioned: “We had been made conscious of a video on 22 April, believed to be from an occasion in November 2024, and it has been referred to the counter-terrorism web referral unit for evaluation and to find out whether or not any additional police investigation could also be required.
“We have also been made aware of another video believed to be from an event in November 2023.”
Mrs Badenoch mentioned it was “good” the police had been trying into the allegations, including: “Kneecap’s glorification of terrorism and anti-British hatred has no place in our society.
“Now footage exhibits one in all them saying: ‘The one good Tory is a useless Tory. Kill your native MP’.
“After the murder of Sir David Amess, this demands prosecution.”
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Kemi Badenoch. Pic: PA
Conservative MP Sir David was stabbed to loss of life whereas assembly constituents in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in 2021.
Kneecap, made up of Liam Og O Hannaidh, Naoise O Caireallain and JJ O Dochartaigh, have mentioned they’re going through a “co-ordinated smear campaign” after talking out about “the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people”.
Mrs Badenoch and Kneecap are already recognized to one another.
The Tory chief blocked a authorities grant to the bilingual Belfast group whereas she was enterprise secretary.
However final November, Kneecap received a discrimination problem over the choice to refuse them a £14,250 funding award after the UK authorities conceded it was “unlawful”.
