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September 24, 2015

Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins leaves The Sun for Mail Online

By William Turvill

Controversial columnist Katy Hopkins is leaving The Sun for Mail Online.

Hopkins' final Sun column will appear in the newspaper tomorrow and she starts at Mail Online on 1 November.

In April this year, The Sun resisted calls to sack Katie Hopkins over a controversial column about migrants, which resulted in complaints made the the Independent Press Standards Organisation and the Metropolitan Police. In it, she said: "Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches."

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