Labour suspends member

LABOUR HAS suspended a party member over antisemitic posts on social media.

The move comes after a Jewish Labour councillor resorted to sharing the posts himself, because the party ignored his complaints.

Labour inadvertently revealed the identity of the member as Laura Stuart, who is known to run a Twitter account called “Gaza Boat Convoy”.

In an email sent on Wednesday afternoon, a party spokesperson said: “Laura Stuart has been suspended from Labour Party pending an investigation.”

However, in what appeared to be an attempt to conceal Ms Stuart’s identity, the party sent a second email minutes later in which her name was omitted.

The email read: “A Labour Party member has been suspended from Labour Party pending an investigation into this case. The Labour Party is committed to challenging and campaigning against antisemitism in all it’s forms.”

The message was accompanied by an apology for “any confusion”.

The councillor, Adam Langleben, of the West Hendon ward in northwest London, had not named Ms Stuart when he shared the antisemitic posts.

Speaking to the JC, Councillor Langleben said he had been moved to tweet about Ms Stuart after seeing her at a constituency Labour Party meeting last week. He made a complaint about her in July but the party failed to act.