Ken Livingstone has been suspended from the Labour Party after trying to defend a fellow MP's comments about Israel.
Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West, shared a post on social media in 2014 calling for Israel to "relocate" to the US. The discovery of the comments led to her being suspended from the party yesterday.
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