CORBYN FACES NEW REBELLION OVER ‘WIFE BEATER’ MP

Women MPs’ fury at ‘assaults’ Anti-Semitism crisis deepens Key Corbyn ally forced to quit

JEREMY CORBYN faced a revolt from women Labour MPs last night over claims his party has failed to take action against a male MP accused of wife-beating.

A meeting of Labour women MPs – attended by ex-Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman –

backed calls to suspend the politician from the party after he allegedly used violence against his wife on repeated occasions. Ms Harman advised colleagues at the meeting of the women’s Parliamentary Labour Party that the complaint against the MP could be taken up with the Labour leader, his Chief Whip Nick Brown and party officials. But sources say t here were also threats to ‘shame’ the party leadership into taking action by making their call public if the Labour whip was not removed from the MP concerned. Women MPs were told the alleged wife- beater had been reported to Labour HQ but officials had failed to act. One source said: ‘The allegations against the man are horrific. There is no way he should be an MP and the party cannot just sit on its hands and do nothing.’ It is understood that Jess Phillips, who chairs the women’s group, has since written to Mr Corbyn asking for the MP to be suspended pending an investigation. The row came as Mr Corbyn faced a deepening crisis over claims that he has failed to crack down on antiSemitism in his party. On a day of dramatic new developments: Leading ‘ Corbynista’ Christi ne Shawcroft resigned from Labour’s ruling national body after claims that she failed to act against antiSemitic Labour activists – and was replaced by comedian Eddie Izzard. Labour MP John Mann, writing in this paper (below right), said Mr Corbyn was ‘unfit’ to be Prime Minister unless he expelled Ken Livingstone who has said Hitler supported Zionism – and claimed Labour faced up to 5,000 anti-Semitism complaints;

Leading Blairite ex- MP Tristram Hunt called for London Mayor Sadiq Khan or ex-Foreign Secretary David Miliband to launch a new party to challenge Labour;

The former Labour, now crossbench, peer Alan Sugar tweeted an image of Mr Corbyn in a limousine with Hitler with the caption: ‘When you’re pictured at Nuremberg and claim you thought you were going to a car rally.’

Ms Shawcroft, who supports the hardLeft Momentum group that supports Mr Corbyn’s leadership, was forced to step down as head of the National Executive Committee’s disciplinary