Labour has suspended a candidate standing for election to its ruling body after he accused a party leadership candidate of "cuddling up to the Jewish Labour Movement and the Chief Rabbi, a well-known Tory".
Graham Durham, a Brent Central Labour Party member, was suspended after the JC reported on comments he made at a post-general election gathering in central London.
Mr Durham was cheered by many in the audience at a rally in January as he said that left-wing Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey did not deserve support because she of "cuddling up" to the Jewish Labour Movement" and the "well-known Tory" Chief Rabbi.
"We should not be allowing that," he said.
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