Ex-neo-Nazi Tory candidate withdraws, but lands counter-extremism role

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Former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine has withdrawn as a Tory candidate for the 2027 council elections in Somerset. Far-right candidate are hardly a rarity in UK politics these days. However, reports claim he has now been given an internal Conservative Party role educating people about extremism. Another Tory misstep Bonehill-Paine was convicted in 2016 for harassing former Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger. The Guardian reported on 5 August: Joshua Bonehill-Paine said on Wednesday that he had withdrawn from next year’s local elections, and that the Conservative leader had instead asked him to become an adviser to the party’s culture and integration commission,…

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