At least three candidates will no longer stand for the Green Party at the upcoming General Election because of what the party’s co-leader called “inappropriate comments”.

Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kunessberg, Adam Ramsay was questioned over how his party had dealt with “antisemitic comments” made by a number of candidates.

Ramsey replied that the party “takes any suggestions of antisemitism, or indeed any form of racism, very seriously” and that “any suggestions that have been made of inappropriate comments in recent weeks are being investigated by the relevant people.”

He added that “in the last couple of weeks, there were three candidates who had been selected who are no longer going forward” and “a small number more who are still being looked at.”

Last week, the Board of Deputies urged the Green Party to do better when vetting parliamentary candidates and that "through their social media activity, some candidates appear to sympathise with the crudest antisemitic slurs. If the Green Party does not start showing some principle on this, it risks its wider agenda sinking into a growing cesspit of racism.”

Former Jewish Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman slammed the Greens for “stirring division” after the JC exposed that fellow co-leader Carla Denyer was using Palestinian flags on a batch of her official campaign material in Bristol Central.

The Greens were forced to abandon a potential candidate in Bristol East, Naseem Talukdar, after the JC revealed that he compared Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler on social media.

According to the Telegraph, Eilzabeth Waight, the Green candidate for Bethnal Green and Stepney, decided to withdraw after she posted a video on Instagram on March 27 in which a woman said: “What’s left for the Zionists [is] to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Palestinians… I think this will happen soon.” On Saturday apologised, saying “once I was made aware of connotations of anti-Semitism in some of the posts I shared from other accounts, I removed them immediately from my timeline and I apologise for the upset they have caused.”

Another candidate, Joe Belcher, standing for Aldridge-Brownhills in the West Midlands posted conspiracy theories that Israel paid Hamas to carry out the October 7 atrocities. He is still listed as an official candidate on the party’s website.

The Greens have been contacted to confirm exactly how many candidates have been removed.