Labour MP Chris Williamson has been suspended from the party following remarks he made about antisemitism.
It comes after he was forced to apologise for suggesting that Labour had"been too apologetic" over antisemitism within the party.
A spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn announced earlier on Wednesday that the Derby North MP faced an internal investigation but would not be suspended, but the party appears to have conceded to demands from senior figures to go further and suspend the whip from Williamson. Senior party figures including deputy leader Tom Watson and London mayor Sadiq Khan had said there were grounds to suspend Williamson for his comments, who has twice been forced to defend behaviour related to antisemitism in the past.
Williamson sparked controversy in 2017 after insisting claims that Labour had a problem with anti-Jewish behaviour in were a"
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