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A number of prominent figures have been suspended in recent years, only some of whom have been readmitted to the party
Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West, was suspended in April 2016 over Facebook posts from two years earlier that suggested Israelis be deported to the US. She was reinstated in July of the same year after being widely praised for the contrition she showed. Shah used a point of order in the House of Commons to apologise, saying: “Antisemitism is racism, full stop. As an MP, I will do everything in my power to build relations between Muslims, Jews and people of different faiths and none.”
Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, was suspended from the party in 2016 after he made comments about Adolf Hitler supporting Zionism. He resigned from the party in 2019 saying his suspension for alleged antisemitism had become a distraction. He maintained that his statements about the Nazi leader supporting a Jewish homeland when he first came to power were historically accurate and insisted he was not guilty of antisemitism. Continue reading...