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Labour suspend election candidate over alleged antisemitic Facebook posts

Meanwhile it has been claimed Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, was a member of a second Facebook group which included links to antisemitic material.

March 22, 2018 14:38
Jeremy Corbyn and Labour have been under fire over Facebook-related issues (Photo:PA)
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The Labour Party has suspended a council election candidate who is said to have posted antisemitic material on social media.

The party had been criticised for failing to say whether it would act for more than four weeks after details of his posts were first reported.

Alan Bull had been expected to be the Labour candidate in a ward on Peterborough City Council when voters go to the polls in May.

He was selected last year, but a series of posts questioning the Holocaust and referring to Zionists backing the Nazis have since emerged - some as long ago as last summer - and been circulated online.