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Tories dismiss MEP after attack on Polish ally

By Joshua Chaffin in Strasbourg and George Parker in,London

Published: July 16 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 16 2009 03:00

Britain's Conservatives in the European parliament are now being led by a Polish MEP who once belonged to a "homophobic, racist, anti-semitic" organisation that used the Nazi salute, according to a senior Tory MEP.

Edward McMillan-Scott, a former leader of the Tory group in Strasbourg, was yesterday booted out of the party after an astonishing attempt to block the appointment to a senior position of the Polish conservative Michal Kaminski.

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