30-08-2018 17:20 via theguardian.com

Frank Field resigns Labour whip over antisemitism crisis

MP decries ‘culture of nastiness’ in party and says he will sit as an independentJeremy Corbyn has been warned that the resignation of the veteran MP Frank Field from the Labour whip, over antisemitism and what Field called a culture of nastiness in the party, must be treated as a wake-up call.In a blistering letter to Labour’s chief whip, Nick Brown, Field wrote: “It saddens me to say that we are increasingly seen as a racist party” and added that antisemitism alon
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