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Hodge’s slurs cannot be allowed to stand
Labour MPs Margaret Hodge (second left), Jess Phillips (third left) and Luciana Berger (second right) at a demonstration last April outside the Labour party disciplinary hearing for Marc Wadsworth in London
JOHN McDONNELL’S suggestion of sweeping Margaret Hodge’s calculated “anti-semite” calumny against Jeremy Corbyn under the carpet is understandable but wrong.
The shadow chancellor is mistaken in confusing Hodge’s repeated slurs against the party leader with his own earlier tendency to occasionally adopt too sharp a tone in inner-party debate before having to apologise.
As a senior shadow cabinet member, McDonnell sees his role as soothing ruffled feathers and encouraging party unity to concentrate fire on the Tories.
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