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Jeremy Corbyn sacks shadow Brexit minister for comparing him to Hitler's bunker


Labour’s shadow Brexit minister was last night sacked for comparing Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership to “the last days of Hitler”.

Baroness Hayter was removed after party chiefs branded the remark “deeply insensitive”.

She had hit out at the “bunker mentality” of the Labour leadership during the antisemitism crisis, saying in a meeting: “Those of you who haven’t [read the book] will have seen the film ‘Bunker’, about the last days of Hitler, where you stop receiving any information into the inner group which suggests that things are not going the way you want.”

She added: “That seems to be where we are at the moment: having the leadership in a bunker so they are not hearing in those views, that evidence, that is in conflict with what they are trying to do, to the extent that even undermines what they are trying to do.”

Barnoness Hayter had compared Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership to the ‘last days of Hitler’

 

A Labour Party spokesman said: “Dianne Hayter has been sacked from her frontbench position with immediate effect for her deeply offensive remarks about Jeremy Corbyn and his office.

“To compare the Labour leader and Labour Party staff working to elect a Labour government to the Nazi regime is truly contemptible, and grossly insensitive to Jewish staff in particular.”

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Labour MP Wes Streeting was among the first to condemn the move, branding it a “gross overreaction” in a Twitter post.

Baroness Hayter remains the party’s deputy leader in the upper chamber as that is an elected position.





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