BADENOCH DEFENDS DECISION TO ALLOW MAN JAILED FOR ANTISEMITISM TO STAND AS COUNCILLOR

Tory leader praises Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s ‘contrition’ but says she has higher thresholds for MP candidates UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch has defended her party’s decision to allow a former neo-Nazi… Badenoch said her party was not giving Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who is standing for election in Somerset, a “national platform”.

The Guardian reports that tory leader praises Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s ‘contrition’ but says she has higher thresholds for MP candidates UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch has defended her party’s decision to allow a former neo-Nazi…

The report adds: Badenoch said her party was not giving Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who is standing for election in Somerset, a “national platform”.

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