A woman has been captured on camera confronting Stephen Yaxley-Lennon as he campaigned for her vote in Salford.
Yaxley-Lennon, who often goes by the nickname ‘Tommy Robinson’, was out canvassing to become a Member of the European Parliament for the North West.
In the video, which has received hundreds of thousands of views after being reuploaded on Twitter, Yaxley-Lennon is talking at the woman about “Muslim grooming gangs.”
The woman, whose identity has not been confirmed, then asks if the former English Defence League leader is just “spouting a load of shit” for publicity.
The man who captured the video, Matthew Gaskell, outside a shopping centre on Tuesday, told the Press Association that the woman had also asked Yaxley-Lennon “why he was focusing on Muslims.”
The woman also referred to Yaxley-Lennon’s ongoing contempt of court case, as she can be heard accusing him of “perverting the course of justice.”
Yaxley-Lennon, 36, is accused of committing contempt by filming people in a criminal trial and broadcasting the footage on social media.
The Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC announced it was in the public interest to pursue proceedings, after a previous contempt finding against Robinson was quashed by the Court of Appeal in August.
Yaxley-Lennon pledged a “David versus Goliath” battle to represent the “betrayed” working classes as he announced his plans to run as an MEP last Thursday.
He will remain an adviser to UKIP leader Gerard Batten but was unable to run for the party due to its rule banning former EDL members from joining.
Yaxley-Lennon was suspended from Twitter again last week, as he tried to set up an account for his MEP campaign.
He received a permanent ban from the social media platform in March of last year after breaching their “hateful conduct” policy.
