MARGARET HODGE has survived a reselection battle in her east London constituency to run in the next general election.

The Barking and Dagenham Constituency Labour Party triggered the process after Ms Hodge had long waged war against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of being an “anti-semite and racist.”

An attendee of the meeting in east London, tweeting with the handle @Alecto101, said more than 400 people attended to vote on Monday night for four candidates in a secret ballot.

Ms Hodge won with more than 50 per cent of votes in the first round.

Her reselection came a week after members of Islington Survivors’ Network confronted her during a Q&A session of a University College London event over her dismissal of historical sex abuse.

Ms Hodge was leader of Islington Council from 1982 and 1992. 

Potentially thousands of people were abused by paedophiles in Islington borough-run care homes between the 1970s and 1990s.

At the time she dismissed reports of abuse and slated an Evening Standard report into it as a “sensationalist piece of gutter journalism.”

She then went on to become children’s minister in Blair’s government.