Conservative branch selects former neo-Nazi activist as Somerset council candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who founded the far-right National British Resistance and was jailed for antisemitic material and racially aggravated harassment of Labour MP Luciana Berger, has been selected as a Conservative candidate for Somerset Council's new Crewkerne South district. He serves as events organiser for the Yeovil Conservative branch. The election is scheduled for next year.