murderers, rapists and paedophiles coming from the EU but they will stop a democratically elected politician from the EU talking about the sources of terrorism." In a 2010 video, Batten said that no further mosques should be built in British cities, and thought the existence of "two incompatible systems living in the same place at the same time" was a threat. In 2011, Batten circulated a draft four-page document entitled "Confidential draft – Dismantling Multiculturalism" to Christian Concern, a lobby group. He wrote: "Islamic fundamentalism is the cuckoo in the western multicultural nest. We can either address it now or be destroyed by it in the course of time." The document advocates repealing "the act of parliament that gives exception for ritual slaughter for religious reasons" and any law which "gives official recognition to Islamic banking". The Treasury told The Guardian that no UK legislation mentions any such financial service. When asked about the document in 2014, Batten called it "a rough draft which I would like to publish in due course but it's not one of my priorities at the moment. You can't hold me to anything in it." Batten commissioned a document from Sam Solomon, which was first published in 2006; it amounts to a proposed code of conduct, including the rejection of passages in the Qur'an that propose "violent physical Jihad", and that should be considered "inapplicable, invalid and non-Islamic". When asked why Muslims should sign up to such a document, he told The Guardians Rowena Mason in February 2014: "Christians aren't blowing people up at the moment, are they?" In 2018, at a rally of protesters demanding the release of Tommy Robinson, Batten described Muhammad as "a paedophile who kept sex slaves" and, in an interview with Sky News, said that Muslim ideology legitimised sex slaves. Complaint of censorship In 2018, Batten was featured in the Channel 4 documentary Carry on Brussels: Inside the EU. A reviewer from The Guardian said the high point of the programme was the scene in which he left the European Parliament chamber, complaining of being censored because his microphone had been cut off. Others argue that he had overrun the allocated time for speeches. UKIP leadership (2018–2019) Election to leadership following the sacking of Henry Bolton On 22 January 2018, Batten resigned as UKIP's Brexit spokesman in protest at the party leadership of Henry Bolton; in the process he publicly