The former New Labour spin-doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the party after admitting he voted for the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament elections.
Tony Blair’s former spokesman, press secretary and director of communications announced on Tuesday he would appeal against the decision.
A Labour spokesman said supporting another party was “incompatible with party membership”.
As an advocate of a second referendum, Mr Campbell told the media on Sunday night that for the first time in his life he had voted for the Lib Dems “to try to persuade Labour to do right thing”.
In a series of Tweets, Mr Campbell said he will “always will be Labour” and claimed there was “plenty of precedent of members voting for other parties/causes”.
Jess Phillips, a Labour MP, tweeted that Mr Campbell was “expelled quicker than a man who threatened to kill me [and] quicker than a man in my [local party] who denied the Holocaust.
“Both are only still suspended”, she said.
