Arron Banks, the insurance tycoon and leading Brexit figure, has come under fire for a tweet about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
The Leave.EU founder responded to a post by Green party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta's voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht, writing: "Freak yachting accidents do happen in August ..."Among those to criticise his post was actress Amanda Abbington, who tweeted: "You're wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl, why..?"
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