The Met Police are assessing the video of Laurence Fox burning LGBTQ+ bunting in his back garden.
Fox, who is preparing to compete for Boris Johnson‘s Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency, used a lighter at his home to set the display on fire on Father’s Day.
An outraged Twitter user claimed to have reported the video to police as a ‘hate crime‘, which Fox has slammed as being ‘arbitrary nonsense’.
The actor-turned-political activist added: ‘Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reporting me.’
Fox had previously said the flag in his video – which is the Progress Pride version created in 2018 – ‘is nothing to do with the original Pride flag which was to represent hard-fought-for gay and lesbian rights, which everybody would support.’
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