Why Ken Livingstone has quit Labour

Two-year anti-Semitism saga had ‘become a distraction’

Ken Livingstone has quit the Labour Party over anti-Semitism row
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Ken Livingstone has announced he has resigned from the Labour party, following a two-year anti-Semitism row that led to his suspension in 2016.

The former Mayor of London had been accused of anti-Semitism after he claimed that “Zionists had collaborated with Adolf Hitler”, The Times reports. He repeated the statement several times after he was suspended from the party.

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