Labour has closed an investigation into a prospective parliamentary candidate after accusations that she shared antisemitic posts on Facebook.

The party’s National Executive Committee had been looking into Kate Linnegar after Guido Fawkes revealed she shared a Facebook post that referred to “Holocaust-mongers” and another defending Jackie Walker.

One post linked to an interview with Norman Finkelstein and accused Labour MPs who criticised Naz Shah over her antisemitism scandal of being “Holocaust-mongers”

According to the Swindon Advertiser, a Labour source said no further action will be taken against Ms Linnegar.

The parliamentary candidate in Swindon North distanced herself from a Twitter account which sent a string of shocking antisemitic tweets in 2016.

Ms Linnegar denied all responsibility for the posts which were sent from a Swindon People’s Assembly account which used her face as the profile picture.

The account shared posts dating back to 2016, which used phrases like “another Zion slave” and described Zionists as “fake Jews”.

At the time, she told the Swindon Advertiser: “The Twitter account was set up when we started Swindon People’s Assembly some years ago. The person running it was so inactive at tweeting that we forgot it even existed. We haven’t seen this person at Swindon People’s Assembly for a long time.

“When we were alerted to what had been tweeted, we asked the person to delete it as the views were not those of Swindon People’s Assembly, me or the Labour Party. This person is not a Labour Party member.”