Jailed tweeter Lucy Connolly was warmly greeted by Nigel Farage with a hug at the Reform party conference as she revealed she told police that 'unchecked immigration is a danger to my child and everyone else's child'.
The former childminder and wife of a Conservative councillor was released from prison last month after being jailed for stirring up racial hatred in a tweet where she called for 'mass deportation now' and told people to 'set fire' to migrant hotels in the aftermath of the Southport murders.
She received a 31-month custodial sentence, believed to be the longest for a single social media post, in what critics have argued is evidence of two-tier policing.
Connolly was loudly cheered by the crowd as she made her way on to the main stage of the conference at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre for an interview, where she said that she had aspirations to work with Reform in the future.
She also said she told police that 'unchecked immigration is a danger to my child and everyone else's child' after she was asked about a police statement passed to the Crown Prosecution Service which stated Connolly 'doesn't like immigrants, she thinks they're a danger to children'.
