MP’S ‘solidarity’ with Corbyn

THE Labour MP for Nottingham East, Nadia Whittome, has expressed “solidarity” with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been suspended from the party pending an investigation.

In a statement, she said the decision “appears unjust”, and that she had “looked up to Jeremy most of my life”.

However, she also said she “cannot agree” with the statement he made about the findings of the EHRC report, and that he was “wrong to make it”.

Mr Corbyn was suspended after he commented on the contents of a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into anti-semitism in the party while he was the leader.

The EHRC found evidence of 23 instances of “inappropriate involvement” by Mr Corbyn’s office.

He said the extent of anti-semitism had been “dramatically overstated” by opponents.

A Labour spokesman said he had been suspended for a “failure to retract” his statement.

Yesterday, Nadia Whittome said: “I am saddened by the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party, someone who I know genuinely cares for the welfare and dignity of working class people and marginalised groups. I have looked up to Jeremy most of my life and have a great deal of personal affection for him.

“I have sent Jeremy a personal message of solidarity and have also been honest with him in making clear that I cannot agree with his statement following the publication of the EHRC report and I believe he was wrong to make it.”