A candidate in the Labour national executive committee (NEC) by-elections has been suspended from the party over alleged anti-semitism.
Graham Durham, of Brent CLP, was suspended over his criticism of Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long Bailey at a meeting in January.
The Jewish Chronicle reported that he had said: “She has been cuddling up to the Jewish Labour Movement and the Chief Rabbi, a well-known Tory. We should not be allowing that.”
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As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says