Romney wins Florida despite Gingrich Shoah survivors call

Mitt Romney has triumphed in the Florida primary despite a campaign attacking his treatment of Holocaust survivors.

The former Massachusetts governor achieved 46 per cent of the vote, but Florida's winner-takes-all system means he has gathered 50 more delegates ahead of summer's Republican Convention.

It emerged during the voting that his rival Newt Gingrich was highlighting Mr Romney's s opposition to state-funded kosher provision in nursing homes, which he blocked as governor in 2003.

In an automated telephone call, paid for by the Gingrich campaign, Florida voters were told: "Holocaust survivors...for the first time were forced to eat non-kosher because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher.