Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds has branded Hezbollah an "antisemitic terrorist organisation'" as he backed the recent, much-delayed move to ban the group in full as a proscribed terror group.
The Welsh MP - whom Sir Keir Starmer promoted in his new shadow cabinet, returning Diane Abbott to the backbenches - also said the party should have adopted the full IHRA definition of antisemitism "in full far sooner".
But his words contrast with Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, when the party did not initially endorse the bid to proscribe the political wing of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terror group.
Last year, when the House of Commons voted on the matter, Labour issued a statement that said then Home Secretary Sajid Javid had not provided ''sufficient evidence'' for the ban.
