Brexit Party candidate said Dawn Butler deserved shooting

A former Brexit Party candidate who suggested a bullet to the head of Labour MP Dawn Butler would be ‘wholly deserved’ admitted his tweet was crass but ‘not menacing.’ Stephen Peddie, 61, was a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Kent constituency of Tonbridge and Malling in 2019 before quitting in protest of Nigel Farage’s election strategy. His tweet was in response to a post by social commentator Toby Young alleging that the Brent Labour MP was using taxpayer’s money to…