During an interview with Good Morning Britain today, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has said the Labour party has moved on from its allegations of antisemitism during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

Corbyn was suspended from the Labour whip in the House of Commons last November after suggesting that a critical report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission regarding the party’s handling of antisemitism complaints ‘weaponised’ the issue.  

“We don’t tolerate racism in the Labour Party. We changed the rules at the Labour Party conference, we got a bit of stick from the media about obsessing about our own internal rules,” Nandy argued.

Corbyn remains a party member.

The MP for Wigan, said she thought “Jeremy should apologise, and that she’d “like to draw a line under that”.

She said: “I think the bigger question is, has the Labour Party changed? I think it’s absolutely changed over the last couple of years.”

She went on to criticise how the ex-leader slated then prime minister Theresa May for expelling Russian diplomats in the wake of the Salisbury poisonings in March 2018.

“I remember the day that the Skripal attacks happened in Salisbury,” she explained, “I remember Theresa May rightly taking action to expel Russian diplomats and I remember the Labour leader prevaricating over that.”

“I think it is absolutely clear now over the last couple of years, certainly since I was appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary that we stand up for the interests of this country and the security of this country and we put that at the heart of everything we do,” she said in a dig at the Corbyn era.