derek hatton, thank you.ere are you joining us from? i am not sure! we have the seven leaving, derek hatton back, what are your thoughts on labour today?” derek hatton back, what are your thoughts on labour today? i think you have heard from the last two contributions that there has to be an acceptance that this is not a good place for the labour party to be. we know in our own lives that if you have problems you have to admit to them and address them. so to take them one by one, anti—semitism, there is no point pretending, as len mccluskey did yesterday, that this isa mccluskey did yesterday, that this is a contrivance. it is real, it has to be addressed and better than it has been addressed thus far. the second point about brexit, there is a real sense that millions of people in this country —— a real sense among millions of people in this country that the leaders of both parties are saying that brexit has to happen whatever the cost or consequence. that is a real issue. and derek hatton saying labour has n

derek hatton was afar than 30 years ago.a far left—wing firebrand deputy leader of liverpool city council in the 1970s and at that time he pushed through an illegal budget, cause disruption in the city and protest at government cuts by margaret thatcher's government at the time. the group e belonged to was judged to be breaches of the labour constitution and he was expelled and a while ago he signalled his intent to rejoin the party withjeremy corbin as leader and that was confirmed, that he had been readmitted earlier this week, on the very day there was labour mps chose to resign, but just very day there was labour mps chose to resign, butjust a couple of days later, he has been suspended pending a decision by the national executive committee and it is thought to be over a tweet he posted in 2012 which has beenjudged by some over a tweet he posted in 2012 which has been judged by some to over a tweet he posted in 2012 which has beenjudged by some to be anti—semitic. one labour mp described it as claiming that all israelis

some breaking news concerning derek hatton, who we understand has been suspended from the labour partyjustay after she was readmitted. the news is coming from is from the liverpool echo. just to give you some background to this, we understand he was suspended as a result of a tweet, this is reported by the liverpool echo. he was expeued by the liverpool echo. he was expelled from the party 34 years ago by neil kinnock. the liverpool echo which now understands the deleted tweet included criticism of the actions of the israeli government and urged british dues to speak out against its action. let's return to oui’ against its action. let's return to our top story. and that of three conservative mps that have resigned the party over brexit and what they call the tory shift to the right. they jointly call the tory shift to the right. theyjointly eight call the tory shift to the right. they jointly eight labour mps call the tory shift to the right. theyjointly eight labour mps who form the independent group in parliament. for more on this, i'm joined by the guardian columnist. she was a candidat

he was asked about the readmission of veteran leftwinger derek hatton to the labour party.s he think it sends to the jewish community to have the labour party readmit derek hatton, who tweeted on social media would seem to imply that everyjew, wherever they live in the world, are responsible for the actions of the israeli government? and does he share my view that he has no part to play in our labour party? this morning... i saw the reports that i'm sure my honourable friend saw, about notjust the readmission of derek but the tweets he mentioned. i wrote to the general secretary of our party. i lodged a formal complaint... good luck. mr hatton was later suspended from the party. it pains me hugely to have heard the powerful testimony of colleagues in this house, of the abuse they suffered for either being jewish or standing up against anti—semitism. even the assertion by some that part of our politics are in some way poisoned by anti—semitism and an institutional way. this does not reflect the country who we are or the politics for which we stand. and our debate today gives

derek hatton has been suspended by labour less than 48 hours after he was admitted back into the partyader of liverpool council's membership was provisionally approved on monday, more than 30 years after he was expelled from the party. but senior labour figures criticised the move and raised concerns about comments hatton has made about israel. it's believed the latest suspension relates to his twitter history. theresa may says progress has been made in the brexit talks following crunch talks with the european commission presidentjean—claude juncker in brussels. but the prime minister warned that "time is of the essence" with the uk's departure from the eu only 37 days away. earlier, she answered questions about the meeting. prime minister, following your meeting this evening, are you confident that the eu is prepared to offer guarantees that you think can get the attorney general to change his legal opinion on the potential permanency of the backstop, and indeed convince parliament in turn? well, i have had a constructive meeting with presidentjean—claude juncker this evening. i have

one man who is back in the labour party is derek hatton, he was thrown out in the 80s as a member ofnd some think his readmission is a slap in the face. i've got very strong principles and views, values that i've always had. 0bviously, principles and views, values that i've always had. obviously, as time goes on, sort of things change at the edges but the fundamental stuff is exactly the same. this story isn't just about labour, is exactly the same. this story isn'tjust about labour, though, there are at least two conservatives in parliament who might end up leaving their party too. so, this independent group sitting in the top right together in the commons for the first time, could get bigger. at a time of political upheaval, historic allegiances are being questioned. nick eardley, bbc news, westminster. let's go to our assistant political editor who is at westminster, norman smith. the leadership promising a listening exercise — will that stop other mps leaving the labour party? i think the honest answer is probably not. but whatjohn mcdonnell‘s intervention probably has done is pu

we'll speak to labour voters and hearfrom derek hatton, who was expelled from the labour party in theolent, controlling relationship with his girlfriend. she was the first woman in britain to be convicted of using coercive control in a relationship. he tells us how hard it is for people to walk away

we remember that seemed to our country for our international viewers hatton refers to derek unliveable politician just readmitted and then suspended after being thrown out of labor for refusing to implement thatcherite cuts sadly and van credited with universal health care also supported the military merge and see that killed thousands in southeast asia but what sort of parliamentary party has jeremy corbyn presided over since he was elected twice as the leader of one of western europe's largest socialist movement joining me now is keith corbin parliamentary ally chris williamson m.p. chris welcome back to going underground quite a week for labor so it's emerged this week the party that you have been in it is the parliamentary labor party have people like angela smith in his head to apologize this week for. accusations of racism we knew the chuckle mouna had to apologise previously for calling working class people trash or appeared to be calling them trashy apologized what sort of party is the party that you belong to well those views are ultimately unacceptable obviously you know they

the controversial former deputy leader of liverpool city council derek hatton has been suspended fromled from labour 3a years ago by then leader neil kinnock for his involvement with a trotskyist group. he was readmitted earlier this week but was today told he had been suspended again pending an investigation into a message shared on twitter in 2012. in it he urged jewish people to speak out against the actions of the israeli government. an organisation that campaigns for lgbt athletes has removed the former tennis champion martina navratilova from its advisory board. the decison was made following an article she wrote in the sunday times — in which she said it was cheating to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport because they had an unfair physical advantage. the group says navratilova's remarks were transphobic and perpetuated ‘dangerous myths' about the transgender community. burberry has apologised for featuring a hoodie with a noose around the neck at london fashion week. the hoodie — which featured on the runway on sunday — was criticised by one of burberry‘s own m