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6 August 2018

Labour step back from the brink by dropping charges against Margaret Hodge

The decision will ease the immediate risk of a party split. 

By Stephen Bush

Labour has ended its disciplinary investigation into Margaret Hodge, in a move that will go some way to ending Labour’s rolling crisis over anti-Semitism and decreases the prospects of an immediate split.

Hodge, who has been the MP for Barking since 1994, was placed under investigation after calling Jeremy Corbyn “an anti-Semite and racist” following Labour’s decision not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of anti-Semitism in full.

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