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Scots Tory councillor readmitted to party after claims Holocaust was 'fabricated and exaggerated'

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Tory councillor and would-be parliamentary candidate, suspended in an anti-Semitism row over his Holocaust remarks, has been allowed back into the party.

Ryan Houghton was banned for six months in November 2019 when internet forum posts from seven years previous re-emerged. The Aberdeen councillor claimed he had been taking part in political discussion when he published the remarks, which included stating some parts of the Holocaust had been “fabricated and exaggerated”.

Other comments raised allegations of Islamaphobia and homophobia but the councillor claimed his words, written aged 20, had been taken out of context.

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