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Labour MP labels Corbyn an 'antisemite' over party's refusal to drop code
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 17, 2018 07:44pm |
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| Author | Heather Stewart and Jessica Elgot |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 17, 2018 08:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of being an antisemite by a senior Labour MP during an angry public confrontation in parliament on Tuesday, after the party’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) refused to ditch a controversial new code of conduct on antisemitism.
The decision infuriated Jewish leaders and many of the party’s MPs, who had voted overwhelmingly on Monday night to urge the NEC to change course.
Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the public accounts committee, approached Corbyn behind the Speaker’s chair as MPs took part in a series of knife-edge votes on Brexit on Tuesday.
Friends of Hodge denied reports she swore at the Labour leader, but acknowledged she had called him “an anti-Semitic racist”.
They added that when Corbyn protested, she replied: “It is not what you say but what you do, and by your actions you have shown you are an anti-Semitic racist.”
One Labour MP said: “She went to him and he just stood there and took it. She was furious.” |
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