Shadow education secretary told to step down from shadow cabinet after sharing article on Twitter
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4.29pm BST
These are from Jon Lansman, the founder of Momentum, the pro-Corbyn group in the Labour party which backed Rebecca Long-Bailey for the leadership.
I retweeted this 5 hours ago without comment in a break in a Labour Party antisemitism panel – my 4th in the last month. In my view there is nothing in what Maxine Peake said that a Labour panel would view as antisemitic. https://t.co/u3eEoZO1qy
Rebecca is every bit as committed to ending antisemitism in the Labour Party as I am. Her sacking is a reckless over-reaction from someone who promised to end factionalism in the party and political interference in disciplinary matters. Keir has now made these tasks harder
4.25pm BST
The FT’s Jim Pickard says Rebecca Long-Bailey may have read a version of the Maxine Peake interview before it was amended by the Independent.
one problematic issue with the @RLong_Bailey sacking is that she may have read an earlier version of the Peake interview which (inaccurately) cited Amnesty International, a point that has since been the subject of this explanationhttps://t.co/f4eHVZKQpF pic.twitter.com/gIxCvvqo5s
I’m surprised the Guardian political blog by @AndrewSparrow has not mentioned the @independent interview with Maxime Peak actually removed the line by Amnesty International. The original published version available here > https://t.co/vTtUbTHKKB pic.twitter.com/HRVPKmfDoN
