Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North, has been readmitted to the Labour Party after serving a four-month suspension for an allegedly anti-Semitic pattern of behaviour.
In the month leading up to the withdrawal of the whip from Williamson at the end of February, he had, among other things: accused of Labour of being “too apologetic” about accusations of anti-Semitism in the party’s ranks, attacked critics of an activist suspended for anti-Semitism, and planned a parliamentary screening of a documentary championing the cause of Jackie Walker, another suspended Labour activist.
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