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John Mann quits Labour to become Tory adviser

The veteran politician will take up a full-time role as the government’s ‘anti-semitism tsar’.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2019-09-07 20:19
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Labour MP John Mann has quit the party to become a Tory adviser.

The veteran politician will take up a full-time role as the government’s ‘anti-semitism tsar’.

Mann says Jeremy Corbyn has given the “green light to anti-semites” by not tackling the problem head on.

He now intends to use his new role to challenge Corbyn on the issue, saying: “I can have a bigger impact in this role than I can by staying inside the Commons, and, rather than it taking up 5 per cent of my time, it will be taking up 95 per cent of my time, which means I begin to hold internet companies, universities and others better to account and every single political party bar none.

“Every time I go into a meeting with a group of Jewish people, I wince when they raise the issue of the Labour Party and Corbyn.

“It is impossible to overstate the anger that I have about that . . . He has not just hijacked my political party; he has hijacked its soul and its ethics. I will never forgive him for that.”

Mann, who will be based in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, claims his sole aim is to make the UK a haven for the Jewish community.

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