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A Conservative candidate for the National Assembly has been strongly criticised for using “inflammatory” language in a series of tweets about Brexit.

Ross England, the Tory candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan, suggested that British society had become “de-sensitised to treason” by Remain supporters who showed loyalty to the EU rather than the UK.

Labour said his use of language raised concerns as to whether he was a fit and proper person to be a Conservative candidate.

One of Mr England’s tweets read: “Remoaner MPs are not only determined to ignore the referendum result and subject us to foreign rule, they are also happy to wreck our constitution as they do it. Remember their names. We must never forgive and never forget.”

Another read: “Loyalty to the EU over the UK has no place in our society or our politics. Parliament and the media stink of it. There will have to be a reckoning.”

He also tweeted: “This hasn’t created a media storm because we are being de-sensitised to treason by the thousands parading their loyalty to the EU over their own country. There will be a backlash. There will be consequences.”

The anti-fascist monitoring group Far Right Watch Wales tweeted: “Remember their names. There will have to be a reckoning. Treason. Tweets from Vale of Glamorgan Tory candidate Ross England. Is echoing far right threats to Remain supporters acceptable from Conservative candidates?”

Welsh Labour’s parliamentary candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan, Belinda Loveluck-Edwards, said: “The Conservatives must investigate Ross England’s continued use of inflammatory and intimidating language.

“He is deliberately using the language of the far right and chillingly says there will be consequences for those he disagrees with. Comments like his have poisoned our politics and divided too many in our communities, in recent years.

“It really does call into question whether Ross England is a fit and proper person to be a Conservative candidate in the Vale of Glamorgan.”

A spokeswoman for the Welsh Conservatives would only say: “The candidate has been spoken to.”

Mr England confirmed he had been “spoken to” by a senior party official, but said: “I do not think I have said anything that I need apologise for.

“When I mentioned the ‘day of reckoning’ I meant at the ballot box, not through violence.

“I think people have a right to be angry at the way Remainers have sought to frustrate the will of the people.

“But there is no way I would advocate people resorting to violence. That would be wholly wrong.”

When it was suggested that he could have softened his comments on Twitter by making it clear that the backlash he envisaged would be delivered via the ballot box, he said: “That’s a fair point.”

But he said he saw no reason to withdraw what he had said.

Mr England stood for the Vale of Glamorgan at the last Assembly election in 2016. He lost to the incumbent Labour AM Jane Hutt by 777 votes.

He was previously suspended for telling a campaigner to f*** off .