Luciana Berger has vowed she will never "in good conscience, do anything to facilitate Jeremy Corbyn and his ilk becoming Prime Minister", as Conservatives claimed voting for the Lib Dem helps Labour.
Ms Berger, who quit Labour in February and is standing in Finchley and Golders Green for her new party, said that, despite giving "my response to this important question on a large number of occasions... it continues to be the case that my position is being misrepresented".
"I have been and will continue to be categorical in my answer. I have opposed antisemitism in the Labour Party and beyond for the last few years at great personal and political cost to myself," she wrote in an email to Anthony Julius, the prominent lawyer
"I couldn’t have done any more. Earlier this year I very publicly left the Labour Party. I gave up a safe seat in Liverpool, with close to a 30,000 majority, to stand up for the British Jewish community. I set out to the country how that, in my view, Her Majesty’s Opposition is institutionally antisemitic.
