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Shamed: The Conservative Party has been forced to suspend George Stoakley
A CANDIDATE in next week’s local elections will remain on the ballot paper despite being suspended by the Conservatives over his offensive tweets, including anti-semitic, homophobic and misogynistic slurs.
George Stoakley – who has now switched his Twitter account to private – is standing in the Fen Ditton and Fulbourn ward of Cambridge in the May 3 election.
In July 2013, he made a reference to Anne Frank’s family hiding from the nazis by writing that he was “sweating like a Jew in an attic.”
In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE