Joan Ryan, the MP who last night resigned from the Labour Party, has told the JC she is making good on her promise that “whatever the personal cost, I would stand by the Jewish community in the fight against antisemitism in the Labour party.”

In an exclusive piece for the JC, she writes that a Corbyn government, “would be, as British Jews have claimed, an existential threat to the community.”

She says that “showing my solidarity with the Jewish community is one of the easiest decisions of my life.” She says Labour now has “a culture in which Jews are abused and their tormenters are able to act with impunity. I am sickened and ashamed of what has become of my former party.”

Ms Ryan says the hard left machine around Mr Jeremy Corbyn “resembles Donald Trump’s alt-right and the European far right” and that it “would be turned against any enemies of the Corbyn project, Jew and non-Jew alike. I fear it poses a danger to the cohesion of our society, the safety of our citizens, and the health of our democracy.”