Ian austin mp biography definition

  • Ian Austin has been the Labour MP for Dudley North since 2005, having previously been a councillor in the town.
  • The former Labour MP Ian Austin, who resigned from the Party over antisemitism, has given a series of powerful interviews this morning condemning.
  • The former Labour MP, whose adoptive father was a Jewish refugee, turned Independent last year citing a “culture of extremism, antisemitism and.

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    Ian Austin: Who is the latest MP to quit Labour?

    A vocal critic of Jeremy Corbyn, he has said that with a "decent leader" Labour could be twenty points ahead in the opinion polls.

    "I certainly don't believe he's fit to be prime minister", he told BBC WM shortly after quitting.

    He retained his seat in the 2017 general election by the narrow margin of just 22 votes.

    "This is one of the seats that Theresa May called the election to win", he said after his triumph.

    He was investigated by Labour after a confrontation with party chairman Ian Lavery in the House of Commons in July 2018, which he called the party's code of conduct on anti-Semitism a "disgrace".

    He had criticised the party's decision at the time not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's "working definition" of anti-Semitism and all its examples - a move that was subsequently reversed.

    The investigation was later droppe

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    UK Labour MP at Knesset: I’m sorry about my party

    Ian Austin, who is also a member of the Labour Friends of Israel, called on Jeremy Coryn to visit Jerusalem and Meet Israeli political leaders.

    By OREN OPPENHEIMUpdated: JULY 11, 2018 00:53
    “I want to start by offering… an apology for the distress and offense that members of the Labour Party have caused,” British parliamentarian Ian Austin told a group of MKs and members of foreign parliaments from around the world Tuesday at the opening of the three-day Knesset Conference for Chairs of Parliamentary Friendship Groups with Israel.“We’ve seen outrageous comparisons [from Labour members] between the actions of Israel and the crimes of the Nazis; singling out the world’s only Jewish state for boycotts and sanctions,” he said. “I think this is antisemitism, pure and simple, and inom want to promise you that we’ll do all we can to rid British politics of this poison.&rdqu
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    Ian Austin has quit the Labour Party over anti-Semitism and its shift to “the hard left.” In an interview with his local paper the Express & Star this morning, Austin said the Labour Party was “broken” and that he was ashamed to be part of it under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. He added that he “could never ask local people to make [Corbyn] prime minister.” 

    Unlike other party defectors, Austin has no plans to join the Independent Group, which now consists of eight former Labour MPs and three former Tories. Austin has previously called on MPs to back the prime minister’s deal to deliver Brexit.

    Austin has been MP for Dudley North since 2005, with his majority dwindling to just 22 votes in 2017. He formerly served as a junior minister and assistant whip under Gordon Brown.

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