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Conservative Party suspends council candidate for anti-Semitic tweet
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGeorge Stoakley, a UK Conservative council candidate for Fen Ditton & Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire, has been suspended by the Conservative Party after reports emerged of anti-Semitic and other offensive historic tweets.
In one tweet, which has now been deleted, Stoakley wrote, “Sweating like a Jew in an attic.”
Conservative Friends of Israel president Lord Polak and executive director James Gurd say in a statement: “George Stoakley’s historic tweets are reprehensible and unequivocally antisemitic. There must be no place for such vile views in the Conservative Party or anywhere in our society, and we applaud the Conservative Party for taking such swift action in suspending him.”
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