They asked people not to name her at all, ask any questions about why, to discuss the issue or risk being banned.
The issue became the subject of public debate when a moderator posted a news article from the Spectator in a popular subforum covering UK politics which named her in passing – and was then banned by the site (after criticism of the decision, the user was reinstated).Ĭoncerned by the ban, moderators set r/ukpolitics to private last night to protect users while they worked out why the action had been taken.ĭozens of subreddits have been made private in protest at the site (Picture: Reddit) Ms Challenor claimed at the time that his account had been hacked, and said both she and her partner condemned the messages expressed.Īfter being suspended by the Greens she said she was horrified and saddened by her father’s crimes, but had only become aware of the full extent of them just before he was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in jail. In 2019 after joining the Liberal Democrats she was suspended by this party too after her fiancé’s social media account tweeted: ‘I fantasise about children having sex, sometimes with adults, sometimes with other children, sometimes kidnapped and forced into bad situations.’įollow-up tweets in the same thread on Nathaniel Knight’s account clarified that these were not things he wanted to do ‘in real life’. She then resigned, accusing the Greens of transphobia. Ms Challenor, who was running for deputy leader of the the party in 2017, was suspended over this issue while the party investigated. An announcement on the r/ukpolitics subreddit
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