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Former BNP leader Nick Griffin today appeared to back Ken Livingstone's controversial comments on Adolf Hitler as Labour's anti-Semitism storm continued.

Far-right activist Mr Griffin spoke out on Twitter after former the former Mayor of London was suspended by Labour on Thursday.

Mr Livingstone sparked outcry when he said Hitler was "supporting Zionism" before he “went mad and ended up killing six million Jews”.

He later stood by his comments after being furiously confronted by Labour MPs and suspended from his party in the row, saying: "Everything I said was true".

And Mr Livingstone today appeared to win support from Mr Griffin, who tweeted a message which seemed to back the former Mayor's argument.

"Hitler started war wanting to send all Jews to own homeland outside Europe & armed Zionist terrorists to fight Brits in Palestine. #RedKen," he wrote.

Mr Griffin then tweeted a message in quotation marks reading: "One day the world will know that #RedKen was right".

The intervention comes after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced he would hold an independent inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in his party.

It will be led by Shami Chakrabarti, the former chief of human rights pressure group Liberty, and will include consultations with Jewish and other minority groups.

The row led to an onslaught of embarrassing headlines for Labour and plunged the party into open civil war.

Mr Livingstone's defence is expected to rest on the writings of a controversial American Marxist historian Lenni Brenner, who claims there was collusion between the Nazis and early campaigners for a Jewish homeland.