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Eighth Labour MP quits party to join breakaway Independent Group [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Eighth Labour MP quits party to join breakaway Independent Group
Joan Ryan says party has become ‘infected with scourge of anti-Jewish racism’
Heather Stewart Political editor
Tue 19 Feb 2019 23.04 GMT
Joan Ryan has become the eighth Labour MP to resign and join the breakaway Independent Group, claiming Jeremy Corbyn’s party has become “infected with the scourge of anti-Jewish racism”.
Ryan, the MP for Enfield North, said she had been a member for four decades – but could no longer remain as a Labour MP.
Echoing Luciana Berger, the Jewish MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Ryan blamed what she claimed was the Labour leadership’s “dereliction of duty” in the face of the “evil” of antisemitism, for her decision to resign.
In a stinging resignation letter, she said: “I cannot remain a member of the Labour party while this requires me to suggest that I believe Jeremy Corbyn – a man who has presided over the culture of anti-Jewish racism and hatred of Israel that now afflicts my former party – is fit to be prime minister of this country. He is not.”
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Joan Ryan says party has become ‘infected with scourge of anti-Jewish racism’
Heather Stewart Political editor
Tue 19 Feb 2019 23.04 GMT
Joan Ryan has become the eighth Labour MP to resign and join the breakaway Independent Group, claiming Jeremy Corbyn’s party has become “infected with the scourge of anti-Jewish racism”.
Ryan, the MP for Enfield North, said she had been a member for four decades – but could no longer remain as a Labour MP.
Echoing Luciana Berger, the Jewish MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Ryan blamed what she claimed was the Labour leadership’s “dereliction of duty” in the face of the “evil” of antisemitism, for her decision to resign.
In a stinging resignation letter, she said: “I cannot remain a member of the Labour party while this requires me to suggest that I believe Jeremy Corbyn – a man who has presided over the culture of anti-Jewish racism and hatred of Israel that now afflicts my former party – is fit to be prime minister of this country. He is not.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/19/joan-ryan-eighth-labour-mp-quits-party-to-join-breakaway-independent-group
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