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It didn’t take Nigel Farage long to take cynical advantage of the suffering of the grieving families of Southport.

His misinformation and poisonous rhetoric – questioning whether the knife attack should have been be treated as terror-related, whether the suspect had been monitored by security services and whether ‘the truth is being withheld from us’ – stoked up hatred and violence and has only added to their suffering. Guy Wilkins, Kew

Sadly, once again we see another tragic, senseless murder of innocent children and sadly yet again the far right do not hesitate with their messages of hate, lies and division.

Messrs Robinson and Farage stomp over any dignity the victim’s families so badly need and deserve.

Social media spews out false information and the racist thugs lap it up – just itching for any excuse for 
violent confrontation.

Have we learned nothing from our experience of fake news and …