However, following the backlash to his selection, including a critical op-ed by Baroness Berger, Bonehill-Paine has now withdrawn from the local candidacy. Piling on them and trying to get them cancelled may be sport for other parties, but this is a different Conservative Party." He said he will still work with the party on its Culture and Integration Commission, set up in March, and will specifically focus on “how young men become radicalised”. “I was 21 when antisemitism became my whole way of seeing the world. Since leaving prison, I have now spent years fighting antisemitism and extremism,” he went on.