The leader of the Labour group on Peterborough council was shown an anti-Semitic Facebook post shared by a local member but nevertheless endorsed him to run as the party’s candidate in a council election, BuzzFeed News can reveal.



Minutes of the Peterborough Local Campaign Forum on 9 November last year, seen by BuzzFeed News, show that Alan Bull was proposed by the local Labour leader Ed Murphy despite the fact that he and the other committee members had been shown the offensive material by a Labour party regional organiser.

The committee backed Bull’s candidacy by six votes to four, with three abstentions, the minutes show.