Conservative council candidate resigns from party over 'Jewish agent' tweet

A Conservative local council candidate has reportedly been forced to resign from the party following a series of Twitter posts in which the term “Jewish” was used an insult.

Tweets posted from the account of Obaid Khan in 2013 and 2014 referred to “foreign Jewish agents”  paid by the “Jewish lobby”.

The messages were posted during a heated Twitter exchange about Pakistani politics. They also expressed the hope that former Pakistani Presidents Asif Ali Zardari and Narwaz Sharif would be hanged.

According to the Birmingham Mail, which uncovered the posts, Mr Khan’s Twitter profile has been deleted and his campaign material removed from the Birmingham Conservatives’ websites.