Jon Lansman has attacked a newspaper story that claimed one of Jeremy Corbyn’s advisers blocked the suspension of a member who was later arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred – calling it “erroneous”.
Laura Murray, a 30-year-old aide who works in the Labour leader’s office, was reported by the Sunday Times to have overruled a recommendation by party officials to suspend 72-year-old Patricia Sheerin last year.
The paper published leaked emails in which Ms Murray said Ms Sheerin, who had posted on Facebook claims that Israel was behind Isis, was not reffering to "Jews or Jewishness".
Ms Sheerin, from South London, was one of three party members questioned by Scotland Yard earlier this month on suspicion of “publishing or distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred”.
