Joan Ryan, the chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group, is facing a motion of no confidence at her local constituency party later this week after left-wing activists accused her of “smearing Jeremy Corbyn”.
Ms Ryan, the MP for Enfield North is accused of contributing to a “trial by media” of the party leader and a group of activists is now calling for an open selection process to choose another candidate to be their parliamentary representative.
The motion submitted to Ms Ryan’s local party says: “Our MP has smeared his character without him having the right to a fair and balanced defence.”
Accusing her of acting like “an independent MP in all but name”, the activists behind it say she “has fuelled and indeed inflamed trial by media” of the Labour boss.
