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- Christine Shawcroft resigned from the Labour party’s NEC after she briefly supported a council candidate who had made anti-semitic remarks on Facebook.
- She will be replaced on the NEC by Eddie Izzard, the comedian.
- One of Labour’s biggest party donors, who has given £1.5 million to the cause over the years, has resigned in disgust at the antisemitism of some of its members.
LONDON — Christine Shawcroft, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, has resigned from Labour’s National Executive Committee with immediate effect amid an ongoing antisemitism row engulfing the party.
The Momentum director claimed that her membership of the party’s ruling body had become a “distraction” and “an excuse for endless intrusive media harassment of myself, my family and friends”.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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