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Independent MP attacks Corbyn's Labour for ordering MPs to kick him off committee but not to proscribe Hezbollah

Ian Austin says this 'tells you all you need to know about what has happened under Jeremy Corbyn'

March 20, 2019 09:05
Ian Austin in Parliament
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Ian Austin has launched a furious attack on Jeremy Corbyn after MPs voted to remove him and Mike Gapes from the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

The motion to remove the now independent MPs, who quit Labour last month, was put forward by the party, whose MPs were instructed to vote for the motion on a three-line whip, and passed by 199 votes to 134.

Mr Austin later tweeted: "The fact Labour abstain on votes to ban Hezbollah but impose a three line whip to vote against me tells you all you need to know about what has happened under Jeremy Corbyn."

Earlier, in a speech to the Commons, Mr Austin, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, said he had believed since 2015, that Mr Corbyn was "utterly unfit" to lead Labour and "completely unfit to be our country's Prime Minister."