It's Harry Cole v Dan Wootton in fight over Reform's London candidate

It pains Rats in a Sack to report it, but a pair of former Sun colleagues turned right wing YouTubers have started fighting like… well, like rats in a sack.

The warring pair are Dan Wootton, the former showbiz journalist turned hard right conspiracy peddler, and Harry Cole, once the paper’s political editor but now dispatched to the States to host a little-watched YouTube show.

The spat surrounds comments made by Wootton about Laila Cunningham, the councillor unveiled as Reform’s candidate for mayor of London in 2028, and Cole’s reaction to them in a since-deleted social media post. What Cole wrote was unclear, but in his Outspoken show, Wootton had ranted that “I don’t want a second Muslim Mayor of London”, asked “why is it sad to want to have Christian leaders in a Christian country?” and, asked by a follower whether he thought she was an Islamist, said, on the basis of diddly squat, “possibly, yes”.

Cunningham then went on Cole’s show, the hubristically-titled Harry Cole Saves The West, where she said that Wootton and pal Laurence Fox, who is also foaming at the mouth about her selection, were “not the right, they’re the far right”.

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Cole appears to have posted something about this which set Wootton off, writing, following its deletion, that it was “nice to see failed YouTuber @MrHarryCole has deleted his tweet falsely accusing me of being a racist, avoiding unnecessary legal action.” (That would have been quite the defamation trial.)

“Even someone who claims to be on the right (despite endorsing Starmer for PM) doesn’t understand that criticising Islam doesn’t make you racist.There is no blasphemy law in the UK…yet,” wrote Wootton.

“This is why the MSM is finished and his show (hilariously titled Harry Cole Saves the West) is a mortifying embarrassment, which has already been pulled off air on Talk TV after a matter of weeks because of its minuscule views and his failure to attract more than 10,000 subscribers, despite massive promotion in The Sun and on Talk TV.”

Lads, lads! Play nicely!