A political row has erupted in the UK after Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch defended the party's decision to field former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a local election candidate, despite his past convictions for antisemitic abuse targeting former Labour MP Luciana Berger.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted of racially-aggravated harassment of a Jewish MP Luciana Berger

Kemi Badenoch has defended the decision