Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said it was "chilling" to hear Nick Griffin claim to represent "Christian Britain" in his appearance on Question Time, as he accused the BNP leader of trying to "hijack one of the world's great religions".
Lord Carey of Clifton called on Christians to "stand shoulder to shoulder" in rejecting the British National Party and its leader Mr Griffin, whom he described as a "squalid racist".
Calling the BBC's invitation to the far-right leader “a mistake”, Lord Carey said: 'The BBC's director-general errs in arguing that in a democracy all views should be heard.
'The views of the BNP are not simply false, they are dangerous, indeed irredeemably evil,” he told the News of the World.
He added: “All Christians [should] stand shoulder-to-shoulder in rejection of Nick Griffin's notion that 'Christianity' has anything to do with his despicable views.”
During his appearance on Thursday, Mr Griffin said if Muslims wanted to remain in Britain they had to accept that it was “a fundamentally British and Christian country”.
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said the broadcast allowed voters to see "what a hateful party (the BNP) is and that it is not the way forward for our country".
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