Angela Rayner has said Labour would suspend “thousands and thousands of members” if it had to over anti-Semitism. The party’s Deputy Leader said members needed to “get real” about the problem following an incident in Nottingham where a Jewish member felt they had to leave a constituency party meeting.
Local parties have been ordered not to debate motions calling for former leader Jeremy Corbyn ’s suspension from the party to be overturned, after he lost the whip for saying the scale of anti-Jewish hate in Labour had been “dramatically overstated”.
Mr Corbyn has been readmitted as a Labour member by the party’s ruling body but he is facing an investigation over whether he can sit again as a Labour MP.
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