Fury over Tory candidate’s Miliband ‘the Jew’ Facebook post

The Conservative Party said Ms Afsar’s comments were “offensive and wrong”. She apologised and removed them from the social networking site. Her party membership was suspended on Monday morning.

There was a furious response to the remarks from Jewish community organisations.

The Jewish Leadership Council said the Tory response had been “insufficient” and called for disciplinary proceedings to be launched against Ms Afsar.

In a statement it later said it welcomed her suspension. "It is important that this election is contested fairly and with decency. Such prejudiced remarks have no place in British politics."