TORY leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch distributed a pamphlet at her party’s conference that had been co-written by a councillor suspended by the Conservatives for posting Islamophobic tweets.

Waltham Forest Councillor John Moss tweeted that “every 11-year-old girl” should be frightened of Islam in 2015.

He was suspended from the party but readmitted after a month later after completing “diversity and anti-bias training.”

The pamphlet, dubbed Conservatism in Crisis, contains repeated criticisms of diversity and inclusion programmes.

Ms Badenoch has also dismissed workplace diversity initiatives as “ineffective and counterproductive” and last week suggested that not all cultures were “equally valid.”

Cllr Moss told the Mirror : “As part of a longer conversation in 2015 about the failure of public officials to respond to accusations of child sexual exploitation, I made a a comment which, when read alone, was disrespectful and wrong.

“I apologised for that, withdrew the comment and accepted the sanctions imposed, undertook training and the suspension was lifted.”