A TORY councillor has been suspended from the party after allegedly baking a hot cross bun decorated with a swastika.

The batch also had a bun with the word “sex” baked onto it, another with an expletive and a fourth with an SNP logo.

Lee Mason, former Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, was suspended from the Tories pending an investigation after a Snapchat image of the batch was leaked to local paper The News.

The councillor denies that he made any bun with a swastika on it, insisting that the photo had been photoshopped as part of a deliberate smear campaign.

However, Mason confirmed he made all of the other buns, including one with an SNP logo.

Hot cross buns made by councillor Lee Mason Photograph: The News

He told The News: “I have not baked a bun with a Nazi symbol. You can see from the picture that is not a Nazi symbol.

“I baked some cakes, yes, but I haven’t done a Nazi symbol on any of them. And there’s no Nazi symbols there.”

He added: “I’m partly bemused, partly offended that I am being got at like this. I don’t know what someone’s motive is behind it.”

“It’s not something that I would find palatable in any way.”

A spokeswoman on behalf of Portsmouth North Conservative Association added: “Cllr Lee Mason has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.”

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