Controversial broadcaster Katie Hopkins and LBC “have agreed” that she will leave the radio station “immediately”, LBC said.
An LBC spokesperson said: “LBC and Katie Hopkins have agreed that Katie will leave LBC effective immediately.”
It comes just days after the MailOnline columnist tweeted remarks in the wake of the Manchester bombing that some interpreted as calls for ethnic cleansing.
The MailOnline columnist wrote: “22 dead – number rising. Schofield. Don’t you even dare. Do not be part of the problem. We need a final solution. #Machester.”
Hopkins hastily deleted the tweet, changing “final” to “true” and corrected the spelling of Manchester – but not before it had been noticed and screen-grabbed by several sources.
The original comment has been interpreted by some to refer to the Wansee Conference held in January 1942, attended by high-level Nazi party and German governmental officials where the decision was taken for a ‘Final Solution to the Jewish Problem’.
What followed were mass killings at death camps in Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor. Hopkins responded to queries about the revision, claiming: “I stand by my tweet. I find the typo disrespectful to the survivors of Manchester.”
But commentators were quick to brand the mother-of-three a “Nazi” and accused her of calling for a mass genocide. Political activist and commentator Owen Jones called for a boycott of LBC until Hopkins was removed from air.
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