Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a former neo-Nazi convicted of harassing a Jewish MP, has withdrawn as a Conservative candidate for Britain's local elections next year.
On Wednesday, Bonehill-Paine said he had withdrawn after his selection prompted an outcry from Jewish groups and others. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch had defended the selection, saying Bonehill-Paine was rehabilitated and could help fight antisemitism.
Bonehill-Paine was convicted in 2015 of racially aggravated harassment of Luciana Berger, then a Labour member of parliament. He was also imprisoned for stirring up hatred against a Jewish community in north London.
Badenoch has instead offered him an advisory role on her party's culture and integration commission, focusing on how young men become radicalised.