UK: Anti-Europe  candidate quits after bigoted rant
           
Private jokes made public

One of the UK Independence Party’s most prominent general election candidates has resigned after being forced to apologise for a series of offensive comments.

Kerry Smith, the candidate for the top target seat of South Basildon and East Thurrock, is said to have mocked gay party members as “poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt" and referred to someone as a “Chinky bird”.

His rants were revealed in recordings of phone calls obtained by the Mail on Sunday

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