Ben Britton, who was running as the candidate for Whitlam in NSW, has been removed from the Liberal party’s website
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Ben Britton has been dumped as a Liberal candidate for the New South Wales seat of Whitlam after it was revealed he had expressed a string of controversial views on fringe podcasts before his preselection.
Britton was taken off the Liberal party’s website, and the party has confirmed he was no longer being endorsed, with the party quickly replacing him with Nathaniel Smith.
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