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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.
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
