Labour MP Jess Phillips has questioned whether UKIP's star candidate Carl Benjamin — known on YouTube as Sargon of Akkad — should be allowed to run in this month's European elections after new footage emerged in which he talks again about raping her.

UK Independence Party leader Gerard Batten has faced repeated questions about Benjamin's candidacy for the anti-immigration party in the South West region over a tweet to Phillips in 2016.

"I wouldn't even rape you, @jessphillips," the YouTuber and Gamergate leader posted in response to Phillips' tweets about rape and death threats sent to women on the internet.

Benjamin has since been banned from Twitter.



On Monday, Batten, who has previously called the remark "satire", again defended Benjamin's tweet during an appearance on the BBC's Politics Live programme, claiming it was fine because the candidate has said he wouldn't rape the MP.