{
  "id": 181686,
  "title": "UK Conservatives defend picking former neo-Nazi as election candidate",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/uk-conservatives-defend-picking-former-neo-nazi-as-election-candidate",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-05T14:30:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3363086/uk-conservatives-defend-picking-former-neo-nazi-election-candidate"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party defended the selection of a former neo-Nazi who had been jailed for hate crimes as a local election candidate, saying on Wednesday that he was rehabilitated and could help fight antisemitism. Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted in 2015 of racially aggravated harassment of Luciana Berger, then a Labour member of parliament, and had also been…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}