THE US State Department was seriously concerned about Tory Party ties to anti-semitic groups a decade ago, a trove of WikiLeaks cables has revealed.

Washington diplomats added: “A Cameron government would be more aristocratic and even narrowly Etonian than any Conservative government in recent history.”

The scathing comments are a reminder of the investigative achievements of Julian Assange and his team, campaign group Defend WikiLeaks said last night.

It published a dossier of disturbing insights into British-US foreign policy to champion the work done by Mr Assange – who the UN has repeatedly warned is held in “arbitrary detention” at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The remarks about the Conservative Party’s links to the far right were made by an adviser to Hilary Clinton, ahead of a meeting with then shadow foreign secretary William Hague in October 2009.

The aide told Ms Clinton to “touch on the Conservative Party’s strange alliances with far-right, anti-semitic political parties on the continent.”

The adviser added that Mr Hague was “disingenuous about the nature of the far-right parties the Tories are aligned with in Europe. Nobody in Britain or Europe is fooled.”

In another cable, the same adviser said Mr Cameron’s “political imperatives have pressured him to lean right, including on alignment with the far-right European Parliament affiliation.”

In 2009, Mr Cameron took his party out of a more “moderate” conservative bloc in the European Parliament and formed an alliance with Polish rightwingers.

Last summer the Tories welcomed another controversial party into that bloc – the Sweden Democrats, whose roots were in the neonazi movements of the 1980s and ‘90s.

In 2018 one of their councillors mocked Holocaust victim Anne Frank as “the coolest Jew in the shower room” and another alleged that “Rothschild controls the economy.”

The Tories have also supported even more extreme far-right parties in Europe.

Last September, the Tories whipped their 19 MEPs to vote against a European Parliament motion that would have censured Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban.

Mr Orban has waged a nakedly anti-semitic campaign against Hungarian-born Jewish philanthropist George Soros.