Ditched, candidate in vile Jo Cox slur

LABOur has ditched a controversial candidate who questioned the murder of Jo Cox and the Manchester bombing.

Mandy richards, who had been selected to fight a target seat, said there was a ‘convenient shortage of evidence’ in the MP’s killing, and ‘no images of physical damage’ from the bomb.

The ‘fantasist’ is also banned from bringing court cases without a judge’s approval after she made a series of vexatious claims against MI5, the police and Thames Water.

Following an emergency meeting of Labour’s ruling body on Tuesday night, the Jeremy Corbyn supporter was not endorsed by the party’s governing body.

Miss richards, who denies being a fantasist, later updated her Twitter biography to say ‘Former @uKLabour Parliamentary Candidate for Worcester’.

The London-based former teacher and youth worker was selected by the local constituency party last month to fight the next general election, scheduled for 2022. Her candidacy had to be approved by the National executive Committee in order to go ahead.

But following the meeting on Tuesday, a Labour party spokesman confirmed Miss richards would not be selected.

‘The NeC has not endorsed Mandy richards as the Labour Party candidate for Worcester,’ the spokesman said.

The selection of a parliamentary candidate for Worcester will now have to be re-run. Potential candidates are asked to disclose anything in their background which could bring the party into disrepute.

Miss richards currently has two ‘extended civil restraint orders’ taken out against her after a judge ruled that she had repeatedly sought to take government organisations to court without grounds.

Asked in a Facebook thread whether she had attempted to sue up to 20 organisations, she replied: ‘I asked them for the issues to be investigated. There was an inadequate response, hence the court action.’

Worcester is a marginal seat which the Tories hold by a majority of less than 2,500.