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Jenny Tonge lashed over fascist link

October 29, 2009 15:01

BySimon Rocker, Simon Rocker

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An anti-fascist group has demanded that Baroness Tonge withdraws from a pro-Palestinian conference in December which is also due to be addressed by a far-right Hungarian Euro-MP.

The ‘Nothing British About the BNP’ group challenged the Liberal Democrat peer over the planned participation of Kristina Morvai, leader of the nationalist Jobbik party in the European Parliament.

But Nasim Ahmed, researcher for the Palestinian Return Centre, denied that Mrs Morvai was “among invited guests” and said it deplored her “extremist” party.

Maurice Cousins, of Nothing British, said that Mrs Morvai’s name appeared in a press release about the conference. This was published two weeks ago by the Palestine Telegraph newspaper and Wafa, the Palestinian Authority news agency.