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Labour ‘mistakenly’ suspends councillor for allegedly supporting Socialist Appeal
‘I am not and have never been a member of the organisation,’ says Holly Waddell, a councillor in Northumberland
(left to right) Shadow leader of the House of Lords Baroness Angela Smith, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow defence secretary John Healey arriving at the Cabinet Office in central London
A COUNCILLOR in north-east England has complained of being “mistakenly” thrown out of the Labour Party for allegedly supporting a proscribed organisation.
Holly Waddell, a councillor in Northumberland, was told last Friday that she had been expelled for endorsing Socialist Appeal.
The Trotskyist group was proscribed by Labour’s national executive committee last July, meaning that any party member thought to be a supporter of the organisation will be expelled.
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