Another MP quits UK’s Labour Party, bringing total to nine this week
Ian Austin says he is appalled at the treatment of Jewish MPs who had taken a stand against anti-Semitism
London — British MP Ian Austin resigned from the opposition Labour Party on Friday, the ninth person to do so this week, saying it was "broken" and had been taken over by the "hard left". Austin said he was appalled at the treatment of Jewish legislators who had taken a stand against anti-Semitism and that the “the party is tougher on the people complaining about anti-Semitism than it is on the anti-Semites”. “The Labour Party has been my life, so this has been the hardest decision I have ever had to take, but I have to be honest and the truth is that I have become ashamed of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn,” he told the Express and Star newspaper. “I could never ask local people to make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister.” Corbyn has promised to drive anti-Semitism out of the party. A Labour spokesperson said the party regretted that Austin had decided to leave. “He was elected as a Labour MP and so the democratic thing is to resign his seat and let the people of Dudley decide who s...
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