Former neo-Nazi withdraws Conservative candidacy following backlash: Watch ITV's New at Ten

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Former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine will no longer be standing for the Conservative Party at next year’s local elections in Somerset after he withdrew his candidacy. In a message posted on social medial, Mr Bonehill-Paine said he knew that if he stood “other political parties will spend all their time focusing on my past rather than the work I’m doing today, or even fighting antisemitism in their own midst”. He said: “Rather than standing as a local council candidate, I believe that my experience is better used supporting Kemi Badenoch in her ongoing mission to combat the antisemitism and extremism that is dividing our nation. Also on tonight's News at Ten: • In the absence of any official information from inside FIFA's crisis meeting on the future of its president, Gianni Infantino, the organisation has been forced to deny yet more damaging speculation. • An Afghan man - a one-time boxer - has appeared in court in Athens charged with murdering the Edinburgh charity worker Elisa

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