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Racist slur no bar to being a Conservative candidate for parliament

Wales Online reports:
“A Tory Welsh Assembly member who referred to Italians as “greasy wops” was today reinstated as a General Election candidate.

Alun Cairns stood down as shadow education minister in the Assembly after making the comment on a live radio discussion programme when talking about the Euro 2008 football tournament.

The Conservatives today announced he had been re-appointed as their parliamentary candidate in the target Vale of Glamorgan seat following a suspension while the slur was investigated by the party.”
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