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A TORY police and crime commissioner (PCC) candidate has been accused of racism after he and other Cambridge Conservatives were caught mocking asylum-seekers and Travellers in a series of vile online posts.
But the Cambridgeshire councillor and PCC front runner Jason Ablewhite, who is facing calls to be suspended, said comments he posted to Facebook as a serving councillor in 2010 were “banter.”
The slurs were made in relation to a picture of two people allegedly known to Mr Ablewhite.
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
