LORD Alf Dubs has said he feels "sickened" that a Tory Party candidate who suggested events around the Holocaust were fabricated will be on the ballot paper at the General Election.
While Ryan Houghton, the Tory candidate for Aberdeen North, was suspended from the party over a series of old posts made on a martial arts forum, because the nomination deadline has passed he will still appear on ballot papers in the constituency on December 12.
The Labour Peer and Holocaust survivor urged the Tories to "face up to their problem with anti-Semitism" as details of the posts emerged.
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Houghton had praised the “interesting" research of the discredited historian and Adolf Hitler apologist David Irving. And in another post, he suggested fellow users on the forum should have a debate on how the Holocaust had been “exaggerated by the victors”.
Lord Dubs commented: “As someone who survived the Holocaust, I feel sickened that there will be a Conservative Party candidate on the ballot paper on 12th December who claimed events in the Holocaust were fabricated.
“The Conservatives must face up to their problem with anti-Semitism. Instead of using the issue to score political points, they should challenge it in their own ranks.”
Meanwhile Sayeeda Warsi, a Tory peer, also criticised the comments.
She tweeted: "Another day another @Conservatives found to have a history of bigotry - this time Holocaust denial. Homophobic & Islamophobic comments. It’s a shame this has to be done this way - the Party could have been proactively anti racist rather than being consistently shamed into action."
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