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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

Labour MP apologises to Commons after calling Israeli government fascist

Kim Johnson, pictured in 2019
Kim Johnson, pictured in 2019, apologised after asking how the PM was challenging ‘what Amnesty and other human rights organisations refer to as an apartheid state’. Photograph: David Colbran/Alamy

A Labour MP has apologised to the Commons after provoking anger by calling the Israeli government “fascist” during prime minister’s questions.

Kim Johnson, the MP for Liverpool, Riverside, said on Wednesday afternoon she wanted to retract the comments she had made hours earlier, just five days after Holocaust Memorial Day.

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