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Exclusive: 'Israel lobby' row erupts among Labour MP's supporters

Leaked social media messages reveal arguments over Chris Williamson among campaigners for Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood

November 11, 2019 09:16
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Labour candidate Margaret Greenwood's campaign to retain her Wirral West seat at next month's general election has been rocked by an "Israeli lobby" row among her own supporters.

Messages leaked to the JC from the Margaret4WW Campaign WhatsApp  group show how tensions flared last Wednesday after an activist wrote in support of the then suspended Labour MP Chris Williamson.

With the decision made that day on whether Mr Williamson could stand as a Labour candidate in Derby North,  a local activist who called himself JET on the social media group, wrote: "He MUST be reinstated otherwise we may as well hand over control of the Party to the Israeli lobby."

In an angry intervention the secretary of West Wirral constituency Labour Party wrote to the 115 members of the Margaret4WW WhatsApp group saying:"I hope you will all understand that it doesn't help Margaret if we don't focus on the manifesto and her excellent record."