Al Jazeera\u2019s undercover investigation<\/a>, Contract Killers and the Far Right, began in 2021 when an undercover reporter joined Turning Point UK (TPUK), an independent offshoot of the right-wing US activist group Turning Point USA.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
TPUK has close ties to several senior British Conservative Party members, as well as to leaders of Reform UK.<\/p>\n
TPUK\u2019s CEO Jack Ross stood as a Conservative Party candidate in 2023. Ross introduced Al Jazeera\u2019s undercover reporter to Nesbitt, who is from Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Ross\u2019s membership of the Conservative party has been suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation. We cannot comment further while the investigation is ongoing,\u201d a Conservative Party spokesperson told The Guardian.<\/p>\n
Ross also told Al Jazeera\u2019s undercover operative that for \u201ca certain amount\u201d, Nesbitt and his contacts could arrange physical attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can kick the f*** out of someone. They can start cutting people\u2019s faces up. That\u2019s another amount. They can stab someone,\u201d Ross said. \u201cThey can shoot someone. They could kill someone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s Conservatives suspend former candidate Jack Ross after he was filmed discussing hiring contract killers. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[265710,11764,924,591,49,31283,50,229,51,47,52,48,54,158],"class_list":["post-809845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-al-jazeera-originals","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-headlines","tag-investigation","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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