'Vaccine sceptic' who resigned from Sadiq Khan's statue commission loses ... trends now
A hard-left 'vaccine-sceptic' who quit as an adviser to Sadiq Khan's diversity workforce following accusations of anti-Semitism has failed in a bid to sue the Mayor's office for discrimination.
Dr Toyin Agbetu, 55, who once compared Britons to Nazis and confronted the late Queen during a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, was appointed to sit on the Mayor's Diversity Commission in 2021.
But his appointment to the anti-racism taskforce - dedicated to overseeing landmarks in London such as statues - raised eyebrows after ‘anti-Semitic remarks’ he had made regarding the Holocaust emerged.
Dr Agbetu also previously attracted controversy after he publicly disparaged the Pfizer Covid jab when health chiefs were trying to boost the uptake among ethnic minorities - sarcastically calling it a 'magical vaccine from Viagra specialists'.
Dr Toyin Agbetu, who once compared Britons to Nazis and confronted the late Queen during a ceremony at Westminster Abbey
Sadiq Khan issued a statement saying he was taking the allegations of racism ‘extremely seriously’ prior to Dr Agbetu stepping down
When the Commission for Diversity became aware of the backlash over his appointment, Dr Agbetu resigned, and Mayor Khan issued a statement saying he takes allegations of racism ‘extremely seriously’.
Dr Agbetu has admitted he jumped before being pushed, before accusing critics of 'Afriphobia' and conspiring with Priti Patel's Home Office to discredit him and damage the BLM movement because they wanted dozens of monuments across Britain toppled.
Following a failed bid at the High Court for a judicial review, Dr Agbetu tried to sue Greater London Authority (GLA) at an employment tribunal.
The social rights activist brought claims of unfair dismissal and race discrimination, but lost both after the tribunal ruled he was not technically employed by the GLA.
Dr Agbetu, who founded Pan-African group Ligali in 2000, first made headlines in 2007 when he confronted the Queen at a ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of abolition of slavery.
He demanded an apology from the late monarch and Government for its role in the slave trade, adding that it is an ‘insult’ to Africans, before he had to be escorted from Westminster Abbey.
A Jewish News investigation also found he claimed victims of the Holocaust were 'served well by Nazi hunters' compared to African victims of the slave trade.
He reportedly claimed online that there was an 'immoral hierarchy of suffering' which victims and survivors of the Holocaust benefit from but black people do not.
Dr Agbetu also once accused Labour MP Diane Abbott of being 'disloyal to her own community' and called Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy a 'poor example of Africans'.
Toyin Agbetu (pictured when he stormed to the front of Westminster Abbey during a service attended by the
