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Jewish Labour Movement condemns Jeremy Corbyn's 'deeply troubling' bid to 'mislead' MPs

Labour leader said he had contacted JLM after its Parliamentary Chair resigned from the party. His office did - two minutes after he started his speech

February 26, 2019 12:38
Jeremy Corbyn
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The Jewish Labour Movement has condemned Jeremy Corbyn's “deeply troubling” bid to “mislead" his MPs after he told them he had reached out to the Jewish group - but had actually only sent one email minutes after he started speaking.

At a meeting of the PLP on Monday night, Mr Corbyn told MPs that he had been in touch with the group after Luciana Berger, JLM's parliamentary chair, quit Labour.

Liverpool Wavertree MP Ms Berger resigned from Labour last week, citing its “institutional antisemitism”.

The next day, JLM e-mailed its members to announce concurrent “extraordinary general meetings” on March 6 in London and Manchester, “to allow members the opportunity to discuss how we move forward collectively as a Movement.”