Boris Johnson's Conservatives refuse to sack candidate who said people on Benefits Street need 'putting down'

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• Boris Johnson's Conservative Party refuse to sack candidate who said people on the reality TV show Benefits Street need "putting down."
• The Conservative candidate for Gower, Frances O'Brien, made a series of inflammatory social media posts about people featured on the programme.
• Labour have called for her to be replaced as the candidate.
• However, the Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Monday that O'Brien would remain as the Conservative's candidate.
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Boris Johnson's Conservative Party have refused to sack a candidate who said that people on the reality TV show Benefits Street need "putting down."

Francesca O'Brien, who has been selected to fight the target seat of Gower in Wales, wrote a series of inflammatory posts on Facebook in 2014 about residents on the programme, which documented people living on welfare payments.

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