‘Wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole’: Milo Yiannopoulos faces struggle to fit in with UK right wing
‘Alt-right’ agitator and former Trump backer deported from US is said to be too extreme for GB News and Reform As he arrives back in the UK after being deported from the US by the Trump administration, the far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos may be wondering what lies ahead for him in his native country. The “alt-right” agitator, 41, made his name in the US by promoting Donald Trump and associating with his allies before the 2016 election. But now the Trump administration has unceremoniously dumped the former Breitbart News editor back in the UK after he allegedly overstayed his visa. He has also made plenty of disparaging comments about the president, including that he is “firmly off the Trump train”. Those in the rightwing ecosystem in the UK say Yiannopoulos is now too extreme to find a prominent berth back home.
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He was sacked after the company said he had failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts.