The Oxford Union is facing a growing backlash after its incoming president made gloating remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Prestigious speakers have cancelled forthcoming appearances at the historic debating society in protest at George Abaraonye.
Mr Abaraonye, who debated Kirk at the Oxford Union in May and is poised to take up his post as president, apparently wrote ‘Charlie Kirk got shot, let's f***ing go’. And in another message, said to have been posted on Instagram, he wrote: ‘Charlie Kirk got shot loool’.
Yesterday millionaire entrepreneur Josh Wolfe, co-founder of New York venture capitalists Lux Capital, pulled out of an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union.
He wrote on X, formerly Twitter: ‘I was invited to speak on tech and VC [venture capitalism] at the Oxford Union, a historically prestigious venue dating to 1823.
