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UKIP’S candidate in Banffshire and Buchan Coast boasted of being a racist just days after a Labour MP was murdered in the street by a white supremacist. In a tweet on June 21, 2016, Dennis Mortimer told followers: “Not a lot to say today except I am English, White, a Racist, over and OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT Goodnight you beautiful people.” Three days earlier Jo Cox had been killed by right-wing terrorist Thomas Mair. He shot her twice in the head and once in the chest with a sawn-off .22 hunting rifle before stabbing her 15 times.