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Louise Mensch resigns as MP for family reasons

August 6, 2012 09:56
Louise Mensch

ByJennifer Lipman, Jennifer Lipman

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One of the most vocal supporters of Israel in parliament has resigned to move to the United States.

Louise Mensch, the Corby MP, is not Jewish but has a strong connection with the community dating back to time as a student in Oxford, when she joined Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's Chabad L'Chaim Society.

Ms Mensch, who is married to Jewish Metallica manager Peter Mensch, said she wanted to spend more time with her husband and three children in New York.

The Conservative MP, who served on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, heavily criticised the BBC for its weak coverage of the murder of five members of the same Israeli family. She called for the BBC to admit that they had not been even-handed, and earlier this year the outgoing director-general acknowledged that the channel had got it wrong.