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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Sophie Wilkinson

‘Crank’ Tory candidates accused of sharing online conspiracy theories

Jenny Johnson
Jenny Johnson, the Tory candidate for Wirral West, shared apparent pandemic conspiracy theories. Photograph: No Credit

The Conservative party has been accused of becoming a home for “cranks” after some of its candidates at the general election were revealed to have shared conspiracy theories on social media.

The posts seen by the Observer include the suggestion that positive tests for Covid-19 were “mass psychosis at work” and that the Black Lives Matter movement might be an attempt to “bring down British society”.

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