Party U-turn as Ganley backs Jewish group

LIBERTAS performed an astonishing U-turn last night after earlier claiming that a leading Jewish human rights organisation was “beneath contempt”.

Less than two hours after Libertas candidate Caroline Simons branded the Simon Wiesenthal Centre as “willing idiots”, Libertas founder Declan Ganley said his organisation was joining with the centre to “actively fight racism and anti-Semitism”.

The embarrassing U-turn overshadowed Libertas’s final press event of the European election campaign.