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Roma rights group slams Hunt for linking Corbyn to the Holocaust
The European Roma Rights Centre said the Tory party leadership contender should review his party’s own track record on racism
Conservative party leadership contender Jeremy Hunt during a Tory leadership hustings in Belfast yesterday
A LEADING Roma rights group has denounced Jeremy Hunt’s comparison of Adolf Hitler to Jeremy Corbyn as “contemptible” and suggested he review his party’s own track record on racism.
The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) spoke out after the Conservative Foreign Secretary and candidate for Number 10 said: “When I went to Auschwitz I rather complacently said to myself, ‘thank goodness we don’t have to worry about that kind of thing happening in the UK’ and now I find myself faced with the leader of the Labour Party who has opened the door to anti-semitism in a way that is truly frightening.”
The shocking slur has provoked a petition demanding he apologise to Mr Corbyn which has already rocketed to over 12,000 signatures.
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