No confidence proceedings against Luciana Berger, the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, have been brought to a halt after local party activists in her constituency Labour party withdrew their motions of no confidence following discreet pressure from the party leadership.
The move heads off a potential crisis in the Labour party over the treatment of Berger, who has become an outspoken critic of the leadership on the issue of anti-Semitism within its ranks. This week she wrote two sharply critical articles on the issue of anti-Semitism in Labour, for the Times and the Evening Standard.
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