Anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate warned that the logo was ‘echoing Nazi-style imagery’
A proposed new Ukip logo likened to the black military cross associated with the German empire and later the Nazis is being considered by electoral authorities.
A previous application by Ukip, which was once led by Nigel Farage, was rejected last November after the Electoral Commission deemed it as offensive.
That application featured a black cross with a sword and a spear running through it. Ukip, which has increasingly shifted to the far right in recent years, has now submitted a new application which appears similar but is without the sword. It includes the word Ukip, with “The New Right” underneath.
Sunder Katwala, director of the British Future thinktank, said that the new logo appeared to be modelled on the iron cross used by Germany from 1871-1918, and then by Hitler’s Nazi regime from 1933-45.
