John Mann MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism has written to the chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party to ask what can be done to stop future comments like those made by Sir Gerald Kaufman MP in a Parliamentary debate last night.
As has been widely reported, Kaufman has apologised after exclaiming ”here we are, the Jews again” when fellow Labour MP, Louise Ellman, stood up to make an intervention in the House of Commons Police Reform And Social Responsibility Bill debate.
This follows reports that before the last election Sir Gerald had allegedly said: “Just as Lord Ashcroft owns most of the Conservative Party, right-wing Jewish millionaires own the rest”.
Mann has consistently argued, as he did in January’s debate on antisemitism, that Parliamentarians must set clear lines of acceptable discourse as a marker for the country and that MPs must take responsibility in their own parties for sorting out such issues.
