British banjo player Winston Marshall announced on Thursday that he’s leaving the folk-rock band Mumford & Sons. The decision comes after Marshall was embroiled in a Twitter storm over his comment on a book by U.S. journalist Andy Ngo. Writing in a blog on Medium, the 33-year-old musician said he decided to leave his beloved band so he could speak freely without affecting his friends and bandmates Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwane, who wished him well after his announcement. “We wish you all the best for the future, Win, and we love you man. M, B & T,” the trio wrote on Twitter. After reading Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy in March, Marshall wrote to Ngo in a Twitter comment, congratulating the author for his “important book” and being “a brave man.” Marshall said that posting about books had been a theme of his social …