Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy
DAVID LAMMY’s apology for nominating Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership was a “sickening and gratuitous” attack on the former party leader, a Jewish campaigner said yesterday.
The shadow foreign secretary told the Limmud festival, a Jewish event, that he was sorry that he had nominated Mr Corbyn in 2015 and that he had “never believed” that the veteran leftwinger would win the leadership election.
In response, David Rosenberg of the Jewish Socialist Group tweeted: “[This is a] sickening and gratuitous attempt by David Lammy to give Corbyn a kicking by apologising for nominating him for the leadership ballot.
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