Vicki Kirby, then Labour’s candidate for Woking, was suspended
from the Labour Party in 2014 following a string of antisemitic tweets.
Now it seems that she has not simply been reinstated by Labour, but appointed as Woking’s vice chair.
This news comes at a time when Labour faces particular scrutiny over
the way it deals with antisemitism following the (brief) readmittance of
Gerry Downing and allegations over antisemitism in Oxford University’s
Labour Club. Earlier today Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, responded to Kirby’s reinstatement on LBC:
I simply can’t understand how or why someone who has
expressed these sorts of views has been allowed to remain a member of
the Labour Party at all … frankly if this was any other form of racism
she would have been kicked out … I’ve had messages from Party members
who’ve cut up their membership cards, I’ve had constituents in Ilford
North write to me asking what on earth is going on with the Labour
Party, is there still a place for Jews in the Labour Party.
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