The Facebook page belonging to far-right group Britain First has been removed by website bosses for breaking community standards.

The social media site said the group had posted content that breached Facebook policy, and that it has taken action to remove them.

Britain First leader and former Swanley councillor Paul Golding, and deputy leader Jayda Fransen, both from Penge, were jailed earlier this month after being found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment.

A spokesman for Facebook said: "People come to Facebook to express themselves freely and share openly with friends and family, sometimes this can include their political views. Some political opinions might be controversial, but it is important that different views can be shared and we are very careful not to remove posts or Pages just because some people don’t like them.

"We have Community Standards that clearly state this sort of speech is not acceptable on Facebook and, when we become aware of it, we remove it as quickly as we can. Political parties, like individuals and all other organisations on Facebook, must abide by these standards and where a Page or person repeatedly breaks our Community Standards we remove them.

"We have Community Standards that clearly state this sort of speech is not acceptable on Facebook and, when we become aware of it, we remove it as quickly as we can. Political parties, like individuals and all other organisations on Facebook, must abide by these standards and where a Page or person repeatedly breaks our Community Standards we remove them."

Britain First, which has a headquarters in Swanley, had more than two million people following them on the site.

It is understood that the party leaders had been previously warned about repeatedly breaking standards, but continued to post content that violated them.

President Trump caused controversy last year when her retweeted three videos tweeted by Jayda Fransen that appeared to have an Islamophobic message.

Twitter introduced new rules in December and both leaders had their accounts suspended shortly afterwards.

The group will not be able to set up another Facebook page.