Kate Osamor has had the Labour whip restored after an internal investigation was conducted into her comments on Holocaust Memorial Day.
The MP for Edmonton apologised for sending her local party members a message saying Gaza should be remembered as a genocide on the eve of the memorial day.
Osamor, a former shadow development secretary, had said there was an “international duty” to remember the victims of the Holocaust, as well as “more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza”.
The Guardian understands Osamor was administratively suspended from the party shortly after her comments came to light, and has been given a formal written warning.
A senior Labour figure had questioned the timing of her readmission, claiming the whips’ office had ignored outstanding complaints that had been made to the party.
“However, it only highlights the outrage that is the leadership’s disgraceful mistreatment of Diane Abbott, who has now been suspended from the parliamentary Labour party for over a year.”
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Kate Osamor has had the Labour whip restored after an internal investigation was conducted into her comments on Holocaust Memorial Day.
The MP for Edmonton apologised for sending her local party members a message saying Gaza should be remembered as a genocide on the eve of the memorial day.
Osamor, a former shadow development secretary, had said there was an “international duty” to remember the victims of the Holocaust, as well as “more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza”.
The Guardian understands Osamor was administratively suspended from the party shortly after her comments came to light, and has been given a formal written warning.
A senior Labour figure had questioned the timing of her readmission, claiming the whips’ office had ignored outstanding complaints that had been made to the party.
“However, it only highlights the outrage that is the leadership’s disgraceful mistreatment of Diane Abbott, who has now been suspended from the parliamentary Labour party for over a year.”
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