A former neo-Nazi tonight withdrew as a Tory council candidate after Jewish groups expressed their outrage at his selection by the party.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine had been selected to fight the Crewkerne South ward in Somerset for the Conservatives next May.
But he will no longer contest the ward for the Tories, saying in a social media post that he needed to ‘show the Jewish community how much I regret my previous actions’.
He was jailed in 2016, after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment against Baroness Luciana Berger, who is Jewish.
Bonehill-Paine wrote several blog posts about the peer, who was Labour MP for
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