UK Labour candidate withdraws over anti-Semitic remark

A Labour candidate in Britain has pulled out of the election race over using an anti-Semitic remark, the BBC reported on Friday.

Gideon Bull denied calling a Jewish councillor Shylock directly but admitted using the word during a private meeting, according to the report.

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