Sign up to the free MyBury newsletter to get the best stories direct to your inbox A Bury Conservative councillor who was suspended by his party after using ‘anti-Semitic’ language has been reinstated.
Coun Robert Caserta had the whip removed in March after allegedly suggesting it could be difficult to speak to residents in the Sedgley Park area of Prestwich unless ‘you’re able to speak Hebrew’.
He has this week been reinstated to the party ‘with immediate effect’ even though a Conservative Party inquiry did not dispute the accuracy of the allegations.
Bury’s Conservative leadership said in a statement that their own internal inquiry had come to the ‘same conclusion’ as the standards committee but they were ‘satisfied that all sanctions
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