(Jewish Group)London Lib Dems suspend mayoral race hopeful over past 'Don't vote for a Jew' campaign

The Liberal Democrats have suspended a party member they had shortlisted as a possible London Mayor candidate and removed her from the ballot paper after television footage emerged of her urging Muslim voters, “Don’t vote for a Jew” when she ran for parliament for the Conservatives in 1997.

Geeta Sidhu-Robb was named last Thursday as one of two contenders to run for City Hall for the Lib Dems, but the party said in a statement released last night that this is no longer the case, adding that “there is an investigation underway in accordance with due process”.

The decision follows Politics Home reporting earlier yesterday that Sidhu-Robb had attempted win support among Muslim voters in Blackburn during the 1997 general election campaign by telling them that the Labour incumbent for the constituency, Jack Straw, was Jewish.

She was filmed on election day (from 24 minutes) apparently following up on her threat to “pull the gloves off” and “drive through town telling them that Jack Straw’s a Jew. How’s a Muslim going to vote for someone who’s Jewish? That’s it.”

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