Sally-Ann Hart was condemned yesterday when she said people with learning disabilities should be paid less than minimum wage as ‘they don’t understand money’ (Picture: Sally-Ann Hart/Twitter)

The Conservative Party is investigating three parliamentary candidates over alleged anti-Semitism, including Sally-Ann Hart who came under fire yesterday for her ‘vile’ comments on disabled people.

The Tory candidate for Hastings and Rye sparked outrage on Thursday when she told a hustings event that people with learning disabilities should be paid less than minimum wage as ‘they don’t understand money’.

Ms Hart – who later apologised for her remark – will now be investigated for sharing a video in 2017 with an image suggesting that Jewish billionaire George Soros controls the EU, according to the Guardian.

She is also said to have liked a comment left underneath the footage that said ‘Ein Reich’, which is a Nazi slogan.




The two other Conservative candidates under investigation are Lee Anderson, who is standing in Ashfield, and Richard Short, candidate for St Helens South and Whiston.

Mr Anderson is under investigation for being an active member of Ashfield Back Boris, a Facebook group where Soros conspiracy theories have been promoted.

One person on the group wrote: ‘The entire exploiters of the anti-Brexit vote are now attempting to uproot the voters via pressure from Soros.

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Ms Hart is under investigation after she was said to post a video in 2017 with an image suggesting that Jewish billionaire George Soros controls the EU (Picture: Sally-Ann Hart)

‘What say you UK? Who is your master?’

Another wrote: ‘It’s scary how much Soros runs/owns/manipulates.’

Mr Short will be looked into for asking whether a Jewish journalist was more loyal to Israel than to Britain in 2013.

Writing to Melanie Phillips, who was appearing on BBC’s Question Time, he tweeted: ‘Being a bit zionist is her allegiance to UK or Israel.’

A Conservative party spokesperson said the cases of all three candidates were being investigated.

The party told Metro.co.uk: ‘Discrimination or abuse of any kind is wrong, and the Conservative party takes decisive action to deal with any incidents of hatred, abuse or intimidation.

‘We are committed to stamping out the scourge of anti-Semitism in our society and supporting our Jewish community.

Richard Short asked whether a Jewish journalist was more loyal to Israel than to Britain in 2013 (Picture: Conservative Home)

Lee Anderson, who is allegedly an active member of Ashfield Back Boris, a Facebook group where Soros conspiracy theories have been promoted, with Boris Johnson (Picture: Facebook)

‘Our complaints process is rightly a confidential one but there are a wide range of sanctions to challenge and change behaviour, including conditions to undertake training, periods of suspension and expulsion, and these are applied on a case-by-case basis.’

The Labour Party has called for the three candidates to be suspended before the election on December 12.

They are also demanding the prime minister answer for anti-Semitism in his 2004 novel Seventy-Two Virgins, which allegedly contains offensive descriptions of a Jewish character.

Labour’s election coordinator Andrew Gwynne said Mr Johnson had never condemned anti-Semitism among his supporters, despite it ‘clearly’ being ‘rife from top to bottom’ in the Tory Party.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Ms Hart, Mr Anderson and Mr Short for comment.

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