UK Conservative Party suspends ex-candidate after Al Jazeera investigation
Al Jazeera • • world
Key Points:
- The UK Conservative Party has suspended Jack Ross, a former election candidate and party member, following an Al Jazeera documentary exposing him discussing the cost of hiring contract killers and offering to broker services of a far-right activist with alleged paramilitary links.
- The undercover investigation by Al Jazeera, titled "Contract Killers and the Far Right," began in 2021 when a reporter infiltrated Turning Point UK (TPUK), an offshoot of the US right-wing group Turning Point USA, which has ties to senior Conservative Party members and Reform UK leaders.
- Jack Ross, CEO of TPUK and a 2023 Conservative candidate, introduced the undercover reporter to Nesbitt, a Glasgow-based far-right activist, and claimed Nesbitt and his contacts could arrange violent physical attacks for a price, including assaults, stabbings, shootings, and killings.
- The Conservative Party has launched an investigation into Ross's conduct and has not provided further comments while the inquiry is ongoing.
