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Questions raised about fraudster's role in Labour's Peterborough by-election victory

Labour won the contest despite the revelation its candidate Lisa Forbes had liked antisemitic Facebook posts

June 17, 2019 09:35
Jeremy Corbyn celebrates with Lisa Forbes after her by-election victory in Peterborough
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Questions have been raised after a man who was previously jailed for electoral fraud was reported to have been closely involved in Labour's Peterborough by-election victory that brought in a controversial new MP.

The party won the June 6 contest by 683 votes, despite its candidate, Lisa Forbes, having been revealed to have liked posts on Facebook describing Theresa May as having a “Zionist slave master’s agenda” and saying that Mossad was behind ISIS.

A Sunday Times investigation revealed that Tariq Mahmood - who was jailed for 15 months in 2008 and expelled from the party for his role in a “systematic campaign of electoral fraud” after forging postal votes - campaigned extensively for Ms Forbes.

Labour had previously insisted he had no involvement in the campaign.

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