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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin and John Rentoul

Labour peer spoiled her ballot at 2019 election to write ‘antisemite’ in protest at Jeremy Corbyn, new book reveals

A Labour grandee has revealed she spoiled her ballot paper in the 2019 general election to call then party leader Jeremy Corbyn an antisemite.

Margaret Hodge, the former minister who was Labour’s MP for Barking for three decades, said it was only when she was in the polling booth that she realised she could not vote for Mr Corbyn.

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