Ukip candidate suspended over anti-semitic comments

A UK Independence Party candidate has been suspended after reportedly posting anti-Semitic comments on a conspiracy theory website, it has been disclosed.

UKIP candidate Anna-Marie Crampton has been suspended. Picture: Twitter

A Ukip spokesman said Anna-Marie Crampton, a candidate in East Sussex, had been suspended from the party pending an investigation.

The spokesman said Ms Crampton told officials her account had been hacked and she was not responsible for the posts - including a claim that the Second World War was “engineered by the Zionist”.

“We are investigating. If she was was hacked, we will apologise for suspending her,” the spokesman said.

The news follows an admission from Ukip leader Nigel Farage that BNP members may be on the party’s list of local election candidates.

Farage told the BBC’s World at One: “I’ll be honest with you, we don’t have the party apparatus in a very short space of time to fully vet 1,700 people. I’ve no doubt amongst those 1,700 one or two will have slipped through the net that we’d rather not have had.”