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Dame Louise Ellman condemns Jeremy Corbyn's 'shameful' time as Labour leader

Former MP fears he will not return to the backbenches quietly, adding he and his 'fellow travellers' should stand aside to ensure scourge of antisemitism is stamped out

March 31, 2020 11:54
Dame Louise Ellman
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Dame Louise Ellman has said Jeremy Corbyn should be remembered as a party leader who presided over a ''shameful period of Labour history'' which had the effect of ''horrifying Jewish people and disgusting many of the general population.''

Speaking to the JC ahead of Mr Corbyn's departure from the role at the weekend, the former Liverpool Riverside MP urged the party's new leader to ''decisively turn a new page and rid Labour of the propagators of antisemitism." 

Dame Louise - who quit the party she first joined 50 years ago ahead of the last General Election because she could not stomach Mr Corbyn as a possible Prime Minister - said she feared the outgoing leader would be unable to "recognise his culpability'' for the situation Labour now found itself in as he took his seat on the back-benches.

She said that she now "doubted very much" whether the Islington North MP would now sit quietly on the backbenches  to allow a new Labour leader to change the culture of the party.

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