Marc Wadsworth who left MP Ruth Smeeth in tears over 'anti-Semitism' refuses to apologise

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Former Liberty boss Shami Chakrabarti today condemned a Labour party activist who left a Jewish MP in tears at the publication of a report on anti-Semitism.

She accused Marc Wadsworth of “behaving incredibly rudely” at the event in London to launch the report which probed allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour.

Ms Chakrabarti, who headed the civil liberties group, took responsibility for what happened at the press conference and said she had apologised to Labour MP Ruth Smeeth.

She also claimed that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had “concurred” with her when she “admonished” Mr Wadsworth for heckling and criticising Ms Smeeth.

But Mr Wadsworth continued to refuse to apologise to Ms Smeeth.

He had accused her at the event of working “hand-in-hand” with the right-wing media in a conspiracy to damage the Labour leader.

Mrs Smeeth later branded the event “disgusting” following his words.

She called for Mr Corbyn to resign for a “catastrophic failure of leadership” for allowing Mr Wadsworth to “espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people” unopposed.

But Mr Wadsworth continued his attack on her today saying her storming out was designed to further undermine Mr Corbyn after a vote of no confidence from MPs on his leadership.

He told the Standard: “Her storming off was an act of politically motivated histrionics and that’s sad.”

He has denied he is a member of left wing pressure group Momentum, which has called for “traitor” MPs trying to oust Corbyn to be deselected.

The Labour leader was criticised for not acting when Mr Wadsworth heckled Ms Smeeth and was also accused of comparing Israel to self-style Islamic states.

But Ms Chakrabarti said there had been “deliberate misrepresentation of the leader’s speech” and that he had been referring to a section in her report.

She said the comparison being made was between prejudice that minority groups in Britain can face.

The probe followed the suspension of MP Naz Shah and ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone amid anti-Semitism claims, which they both deny.

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