Ex-counter-terrorism boss hints police are investigating Nigel Farage's social media activityLBC
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00:00Nothing to do, it's two Home Secretaries.
00:02Farage's social media activity in particular, do you think that should be investigated?
00:07I imagine that my former colleagues are doing precisely that. They'll be looking at anybody
00:11who might have incited this, so they'll be looking at the timeline from minute one,
00:17and you've seen actually some arrests and prosecutions in this space about who has
00:22amplified this rhetoric and whether the lines that they were using might have had an influence.
00:27But the law is very clear. It has to be designed to incite racial hatred. It has to be published
00:32in order to incite that hatred. I mean, people are very clever. We spent years chasing Anjum
00:38Chowdhury. We've done the same thing with the Axley Lennon. These people are very,
00:42very clever. They know exactly where the line of the law is, and they stay south of that line.
00:47And it isn't for police officers, serving or ex, to start changing that line.