AN extraordinary meeting will be held next week after a member of Mylor Parish Council was filmed delivering what has been dubbed as an “anti-semitic, holocaust denying rant.”

Cllr Peter Lawrence, who attended a far-right protest in Truro city centre on May 24, was captured on video telling members of the anti-fascist group Cornwall Resists that technically antisemitism didn’t exist and that the Holocaust had been “massively over-exaggerated”.

Mr Lawrence, who is a farmer, represents the British Democrats on Mylor Parish Council after he took the seat unopposed earlier this year. He formed the Farmers Movement Cornwall campaign group and has formerly tried to be elected as the area's MP in the past.

Mylor Parish Council will now hold an extraordinary meeting following a proposal from councillors Patrick Polglase and Paul Baker.

The proposal read: “This council absolutely and unequivocally rejects the comments made by councillor Peter Lawrence at a protest meeting in Truro on May 24, 2025.

“Whilst councillor Lawrence at no time claimed to be speaking as a Mylor Parish Councillor, it is our contention that his words have brought all councillors and thus this council into disrepute by association.

“Mylor Parish Council has never been a political organisation, it exists to promote and facilitate the wellbeing of all the parishioners which it serves without exception.

“To make such assertions regarding a truly horrific time in our history is deeply insulting and offensive to the memory of all those who lost their lives, and their families and is not something that the parish council would ever wish to be thought of as in agreement with.

The meeting, which is open to members of the public, will take place at the Ord Statter Pavilion in Mylor Bridge on Thursday, June 5 starting at 7pm.