Liverpool MP Stephen Twigg has refused to condemn remarks made by a Labour member who was due to run as the party’s candidate in the city’s council elections in his West Derby constituency.
Mr Twigg — a former chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group — told the JC he would not be commenting on alleged antisemitic and homophobic remarks made by Liam Moore until an investigation by Labour had been completed.
Mr Moore was last week revealed to have posted a number of anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist messages over a period of years, including a claim that “Rothchilds Zionist run Israel and world governments, don’t give a toss about ordinary Jew [sic], Jesus is coming back his people.”
Last Friday, the Liverpool West Derby constituency Labour Party tweeted that Mr Moore, an evangelical vicar, had offered his resignation — but that it had been “unanimously” refused by members of the party’s Norris Green & Croxteth branch.
