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Jeremy Corbyn needs to make a “full apology” to be reinstated as a Labor MP, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Sky News.
Another bitter internal battle has broken out within Work after Mr Corbyn they told him on Wednesday that he the party whip will not be restored.
This was despite the fact that his suspension as a member of the Labor Party, motivated by his reaction to a report of damning anti-Semitism, was lifted by a disciplinary panel earlier in the week.
Jeremy Corbyn has been told he will not restore the Labor whip
The current Labor leader’s decision Sir keir starmer Continuing to retain the Labor whip of his predecessor means that Corbyn is not yet officially a Labor MP.
He will continue to sit as an independent in the House of Commons, even though he has been reinstated as a party member.
Mr brown – who led the Labor Party between 2007 and 2010 – said Corbyn needed to show contrition to win back the Labor whip.
“You have to make a full apology and it has to be clear that there are no buts, buts, qualifications on your opposition to anti-Semitism,” he said.
“I think Keir Starmer will insist on that and that’s the right thing to do.
“I am sure that mistakes have been made along the way, I am sure that it has not intended these consequences, Jeremy Corbyn himself.
“But you cannot allow the impression that even a case of anti-Semitism in the Labor Party is acceptable.
“None is acceptable, no form of racism, no form of discrimination, we have to eradicate it once and for all.”
When asked what an apology from Corbyn should include, Brown added: “You have to say ‘I was wrong.
“You have to say ‘I made a mistake’, you have to say ‘whatever people think, I’m not anti-Semitic in any way and when I made these mistakes, now I want to apologize for them.
On Wednesday night, 30 Labor MPs demanded that Corbyn be allowed to rejoin the parliamentary party, calling Sir Keir’s action “wrong and damaging”.
Meanwhile, Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey claimed there had been a “witch hunt” by Corbyn, a close ally of his.
“Keir appears to have neglected the process and has intervened with this extraordinary decision,” the union leader said Thursday.
“It sounds a lot like a witch hunt to me and the pursuit of a decent man.
“People can disagree with Corbyn on a lot of things, but I think most people consider him a decent and honest person.
“And being hunted and haunted in this way is not the way the Labor Party does things.
“I would appeal to Keir to try and resolve this, the British public does not like a divided party.”
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Corbyn had the Labor whip removed and was initially suspended from the party after claiming last month that “the magnitude of the problem” with accusations of Labor anti-Semitism was “dramatically exaggerated for political reasons by our opponents.”
He also said that he did not accept all the conclusions of the report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on Labor’s handling of anti-Semism cases under his leadership.
In a statement posted on his Facebook page Tuesday and also provided to the party itself, Corbyn said he wanted to “clear up any confusion about what he had meant.”
“I am sorry for the pain that this problem has caused the Jewish community and I would not want to do anything that could exacerbate or prolong it,” he said.
“To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither ‘exaggerated’ nor ‘exaggerated’.
“The point I wanted to make was that the vast majority of Labor Party members were and remain committed antiracists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.
“I fully support Keir Starmer’s decision to accept all of the EHRC’s recommendations in their entirety and, in accordance with my own longtime convictions, I will do what I can to help the party move forward, united against the anti-Semitism that has been responsible for so many of the greatest crimes against humanity in history. “
However, this clarifying statement did not offer an apology or retraction of his comments on the day of the EHRC’s report publication.
