Labour MP Jess Phillips believes Jeremy Corbyn must withdraw the whip from Chris Williamson – the MP at the centre of an anti-Semitism row – as a “matter of principle”.
Ms Phillips is one of more than 120 MPs and peers calling for the removal of Mr Williamson from the parliamentary party following his readmission on Wednesday.
The Derby North MP was originally suspended after saying the party was “too apologetic” in the face of criticism of the way it dealt with cases of anti-Semitism.
Ms Phillips said Mr Williamson had been guilty of “a litany of offensive behaviour towards the Jewish community and those fighting anti-Semitism”.
She told the BBC’s Today programme: “This is a matter of principle about racism, about the Labour Party being the party of equality, the party that is anti-racist. That reputation is slipping away from us every day.”
Our political editor Heather Stewart is in Japan for the G20 summit.
Theresa May spoke to journalists at the Yakamoto Noh Theatre and in keeping with Japanese cultural traditions, the prime minister removed her shoes before entering the venue.
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Ahead of her meeting today with Vladmir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka, Theresa May has called for the suspects in the Salisbury Novichok attack to be “brought to justice”.
The UK believes two officers from Russia’s military intelligence service were behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March 2018.
Scotland Yard and the CPS say there is sufficient evidence to charge two Russians – who go by the names of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov – for attempted murder.
Mr Skripal and his daughter survived the poisoning but Dawn Sturgess died last July after coming into contact with Novichok through handling a contaminated perfume bottle.
Mrs May told the BBC that Russia needs to stop its “destabilising activities”.
In a separate interview with ITV, she said: “It’s not business as usual and it can’t be business as usual with Russia until they stop the sort of acts we have seen them doing around the world.
“I want to see the individuals, against whom charges have been brought, brought to justice.”
The Kremlin denies any involvement. Mr Putin has insisted the suspects are civilians, not criminals.
A crude remark by Boris Johnson about the French was cut from a BBC documentary following concerns at the Foreign Office over how it could impact diplomatic relations.
The former foreign secretary accused the French of being “turds” over Brexit, with the comment due to appear in the Inside the Foreign Office programme last November, the Daily Mail reported.
But the Foreign Office asked for it to be cut with a Whitehall memo suggesting the comment would make Anglo-French relations “awkward”, according to the newspaper.
A spokeswoman for the BBC said: “The programme set out to reflect the realities of life inside the Foreign Office, the production team made judgments about what was in the programme and they are satisfied that the programme achieves its ambitions and has the content they wanted.”
The Foreign Office declined to comment.
Andrea Leadsom, who resigned as leader of the House of Commons in May over Brexit, told the Today programme: “Boris is the man who is going to take us out of the European Union.
“Only by being prepared to walk away will we get a good deal”.
She is also hopeful of a deal being struck before Halloween because of the incoming EU commissioners “who would not want their legacy to be the United Kingdom being an unsolved mystery”.
Andrea Leadsom, the former leader of the House of Commons, was pressed on the Today programme about the possibility of a No Deal Brexit.
Boris Johnson had said the chances of no deal are “million-to-one against” despite promising to leave on 31 October.
During a lively interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, Leadsom said “I’m not a bookie, I can’t give you odds”.
She added: “Its impossible to predict the future. What Boris is indicating is it’s not his intention to leave without a deal.”
Prime minister to meet Russian president at G20
Good morning and welcome to The Guardian’s live politics blog. We have a busy day ahead with Theresa May set to meet President Vladimir Putin in Osaka, their first meeting since the poisoning cases in Salisbury last year, and the Tory leadership hustings.