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You’re mired . . . in a VERY toxic Corbyn ‘Nazi’ row, Lord Sugar
APPRENTICE host Alan Sugar caused uproar in the anti-Semitism row yesterday – by tweeting an image of Jeremy Corbyn in a car with Hitler.
The caption said: ‘When you’re pictured at Nuremberg and claim you thought you were going to a car rally.’
Lord Sugar, who quit the Labour Party in 2015, said Mr Corbyn must take a tougher line on anti-Semitism. Nuremberg was host to Nazi propaganda events.
The peer, who is Jewish, said the tweet was a ‘joke,’ adding: ‘Many a true word spoken in jest Corbyn.’ committee earlier this week after she appeared to defend a council candidate accused of Holocaust denial. However, she quit the NEC altogether last night after calls for her to go from party deputy leader Tom Watson.
Earlier in the day, he had said: ‘I hope she can explore her own conscience and realise the damage she has done to her own party and to Jeremy personally.’
Amid the row, a leaked letter that Ms Shawcroft wrote three weeks ago – seen by the MoS – defended her chairmanship of the NEC disputes panel but complained that she was ‘stitched up’. Last night she said she had quit because ‘it is clear that my continued membership of the NEC has become a distraction for the party’.
Mr Izzard will replace her because he had been runner-up in the last round of elections. The pro- EU comedian and activist had run on a platform of increasing diversity in the party. At the time he vowed: ‘Despite not being elected, I’ll continue to do all I can to campaign for an open and welcoming Labour Party and to campaign with fellow Labour activists to help Labour win the next Election and put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.’
Mr Watson also called on Labour’s new General Secretary Jennie Formby to take prompt action to expel Ken Livingstone, who has made a series of controversial comments comparing Jews to Nazis.
In another blow to Mr Corbyn, former Shadow Minister Mr Hunt became the latest Labour figure to call for a breakaway, left of centre political force.
Mr Hunt, who quit politics last year to become director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, said he was no longer certain to vote for Mr Corbyn’s Labour Party even though he was still a Labour member. He said he was a ‘ floating voter’ and wanted a ‘different polit- ical option’. Mr Hunt said that Britain was crying out for its own Emmanuel Macron, who qui t France’s discredited Socialist Party and stormed to power last year as leader of his own Centre Left movement, En Marche!
‘ If I could vote for Emmanuel Macron, I would,’ said Mr Hunt. ‘An individual backed by ideas is as important as the ideas.
‘To cut through social media politics you need a strong substantive leader – somebody like Sadiq Khan or David Miliband.’
Mr Hunt said both would make ideal leaders of a ‘pro-European, internationalist party that believes in social mobility, a market economy and social justice’.
Mr Corbyn has denied being antiSemitic. But Jewish Labour peer Robert Winston has claimed that the Labour leader has ‘encouraged and endorsed’ anti-Semites. Hostility to Jews had ‘infected the Labour Party so it’s become endemic’, he said.
The MoS has chosen not to disclose the identity of the MP in the wife-beating claims. Labour sources denied the party had failed to act, saying the party leader’s office had taken ‘every opportunity’ to try to deal with the allegations.