Dame Margaret Hodge's lawyers have accused Labour of a “veiled attempt to silence her” by warning of possible disciplinary action against her in the wake of her angry confrontation with Jeremy Corbyn.
The MP confronted the Labour leader, calling him an “antisemite and a racist”. She denied accusations in initial reports that she used the words "a f***ing antisemite".
The confrontation on Tuesday last week followed the refusal of Labour’s National Executive Committee to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, in favour of its own definition that omits key examples of how criticising Israel can be antisemitic.
On Monday, Dame Margaret revealed she received a notice of investigation into her conduct by party officials just 12 hours after the incident, which took place behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons after MPs were voting on Brexit.
