KEMI BADENOCH DEFENDS SELECTION OF MAN JAILED FOR HARASSING JEWISH MP IN COUNCIL ELECTION – UK POLITICS LIVE

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election… This is 2,026 below the record high of 88,521 reached on 6 September 2024, just before the current early release scheme began.

The Guardian reports that conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election…

The report adds: This is 2,026 below the record high of 88,521 reached on 6 September 2024, just before the current early release scheme began.

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