MP Ruth Smeeth: Labour party is not a safe space for British Jews

A Labour MP has claimed the party “cannot be a safe space” for British Jews after Jeremy Corbyn failed to intervene when she was verbally abused by one of his grassroots supporters at a press conference.

Ruth Smeeth, who is Jewish, said Mr Corbyn had shown a “catastrophic failure of leadership” and must immediately resign to make way for “someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism”.

Marc Wadsworth, who runs Momentum Black Connexions, accused the Jewish MP of “working hand in hand” with the Daily Telegraph during a tirade at the event in central London.