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Former Labour MP Jared O'Mara
A FORMER member of the Labour Party’s national executive committee (NEC) has said that a lack of democracy in the party’s parliamentary candidate selection procedure was to blame for the choice of Jared O’Mara.
Martin Mayer, secretary of Sheffield Trade Union Council and former Unite delegate on the NEC, said that Mr O’Mara had been forced on Sheffield Hallam Constituency Labour Party (CLP) for the 2017 general election by a panel of three members of the committee.
Mr O’Mara won the seat from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, but he was later suspended from Labour after being accused of making misogynistic, racist and homophobic comments.
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