Ken Livingstone
Jeremy Corbyn denied that his party has a “problem” with anti-Semitism after Ken Livingstone was accused of being a “disgusting Nazi apologist” by a fellow Labour MP.
In a day of unprecedented turmoil, the Labour leader suspended Mr Livingstone after he invoked Hitler to defend a colleague over anti-Semitic remarks and claimed that there was a “well-orchestrated campaign” against the party by the “Israel lobby”.
Mr Corbyn, who maintained that there was “no crisis” despite 39 backbenchers and members of the shadow cabinet attacking his handling of the scandal, enraged his MPs further by suggesting that the row has been created by his opponents because they are nervous and jealous of his power.
Mr Livingstone became the second figure to be suspended from the party in as many days after he said that it is “over the top” to “think of anti-Semitism and racism as exactly the same thing”.
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