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Double blow for Jeremy Corbyn as ex-Labour MP Ian Austin tells voters to back Boris


JEREMY Corbyn has suffered a double blow as a former Labour MP urges voters to back Boris Johnson – after Tom Watson quits.

Ian Austin has branded the Labour boss “completely unfit” to be PM and said getting him to No10 would be a “disaster for Britain”.

 Ian Austin has branded the Labour boss as “completely unfit” to be PM and getting him to No10 would be a “disaster for Britain”

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Ian Austin has branded the Labour boss as “completely unfit” to be PM and getting him to No10 would be a “disaster for Britain”Credit: London News Pictures

NOT FIT TO BE PM

Mr Austin, 54, who represented the seat of Dudley , quit the party in February over its anti-semitism scandal and felt Labour drift further towards the extreme left.

He now plans to stand as an independent candidate in another constituency in the December Election – but will vote for the Tories.

Jeremy Corbyn is an extremist. He’s allowed the Labour Party to be poisoned by extremism and racism, he supported terrorism,

Ian Austin

Mr Austin told The Times: “Jeremy Corbyn is an extremist.

“He’s allowed the Labour Party to be poisoned by extremism and racism, he supported terrorism, he can’t be trusted with our defence and he always picks the wrong side.”

WATSON QUITS

The comments come after deputy leader Mr Watson sensationally quit as an MP last night.

Mr Watson, who has represented West Bromwich since 2001, said: “The decision is personal, not political.”

He made the shock move after finding himself in a vulnerable position after repeated clashes with hard-left supporters of Mr Corbyn.

It culminated with the cabal trying to remove him in an attempted coup – which he described as a “drive-by shooting”.

BORIS IS A ‘PATRIOT’

Mr Austin said he was not a supporter of the Tory party – but added that Mr Johnson was a “patriot” and in contrast Mr Corbyn was someone who has “sided with our country’s enemies.”

However, he added that Mr Corbyn was not the only dangerous figure in the Labour party’s ranks.

Mr Austin also said Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was an “extremist who spent the 1980s supporting the IRA”.

I think they regard wealth as a problem and people who create it as the enemy

Ian Austin

He also blasted Labour chiefs’ attitude to Britain’s wealthy, adding: “I think they regard wealth as a problem and people who create it as the enemy.”

However, his greatest concern is the antisemitism scandal that has engulfed the party.

Mr Corbyn’s leadership has been dogged by an ongoing row among activists and officials of the Labour Party over alleged bullying and abuse to Jewish members.

It culminated in Scotland Yard launching a criminal investigation into alleged hate crimes – and seven MPs quitting in protest at the failure to tackle the problem.

Mr Austin’s adoptive father Fred Austin arrived in Britain as a 10-year-old Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1939.

He escaped death in a concentration camp after his mother and sisters put him on a train to safety. They tragically were killed at the Treblinka camp.

Mr Austin said that while his decision to quit was the party upset him – he could now “look my Jewish friends in the eye, I could look my Dad in the eye.”

 Mr Austin called Boris Johnson a 'patriot'

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Mr Austin called Boris Johnson a ‘patriot’Credit: Reuters
 Mr Austin blasted Jeremy Corbyn as an 'extremist'

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Mr Austin blasted Jeremy Corbyn as an ‘extremist’Credit: PA:Press Association


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