Hampstead and Kilburn CL cent of members amid har
HAMPSTEAD AND Kilburn Labour Party has lost nearly 20 per cent of its members amid a hard-left takeover of leading positions at the branch.
Sources have said that 422 members of Hampstead and Kilburn constituency Labour Party (CLP) have left the party over the past year — leaving just under 2,000 activists.
The north west London constituency is home to around 7,000 Jewish voters, and the JC has learned of numerous Jewish Labour supporters in the area who have quit the party as a result of the long-running antisemitism scandal.
Hampstead and Kilburn CLP — represented by Tulip Siddiq MP — has long been rocked with allegations of “obsessional Jew-baiting and Israel bashing” at local meetings.
Phil Rosenberg, a former councillor in West Hampstead, and now Director of Public Affairs at the Board of Deputies, told the local Ham & High newspaper last February: “I have unfortunately faced antisemitism before from some people in the Labour Party... there is a culture of people egging each other on and thinking it is OK.”
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Leao Neto as CLP chair last November claiming there was a “wider culture of aggressive intimidation and exclusion”. The membership dip comes after reports of around 150,000 people leaving the party nationally.
The Labour leadership was quick to deny that this was because of the antisemitism scandal that has engulfed Jeremy Corbyn or the leadership’s failure to oppose Brexit.
A source connected to Hampstead and Kilburn CLP confirmed that 422 of its members had left the party since January 2018, adding it was down to “a combination of Brexit and anitisemitism concerns”. Last week, general secretary Jennie Formby claimed more than 3,000 people had joined the party over the past two