By Jenny Cleeton

A controversial Twitter campaign by Leave.EU which encouraged people to vote for Brexit to avoid “an Orlando-style atrocity here” has now been deleted.

The political group received backlash from Twitter users who described the poster as “disgraceful, xenophobic scaremongering”, “simply abhorrent” and “shameful and cowardly”.

The tweet, which was issued in response to an attack on an Orlando gay bar over the weekend, stated: “Islamic extremism is a real threat to our way of life” and insinuated that the UK could be a target for further attacks if people did not vote to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum.

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Source: The Drum