Luciana Berger

The former MP for Wavertree quit the party in 2019 over alleged anti-Semitism.

In his letter of apology to Luciana Berger, Kier Starmer added: "It is my firm belief that this is a party unrecognisable from the one you left in 2019. It is time to replace this reckless and divisive government and ultimately make the difference our country so desperately deserves." I would be honoured to work alongside you in continuing to build a Labour Party we can be proud of- a Labour Party that can win again." Her decision to re-join the party comes after the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) moved Labour out of special measures following a new report. She left the House of Commons in 2019. The 41-year-old was MP for Wavertree from 2010 to 2019 before quitting the Labour Party over alleged anti-Semitism.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he is 'delighted' over her return, adding that she had been forced out by 'intimidation, thuggery and…

“The abuse you suffered was disgusting. Sir Keir said the findings of the EHRC investigation were “hard to read”, adding that it was “a day of shame for the Labour Party”. He said the party and British politics are “poorer places” without her, and apologised to her for the “intolerable and unacceptable” experience she had. Sir Keir said in his letter to Ms Berger that she left the party because she was “forced out by intimidation, thuggery and racism”, adding: “Yours was a principled and brave move. In her letter she said it was a “grim journey” from 2015 to 2019 “during which the party fell into the depths of the abyss under Jeremy Corbyn’s reign”. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “delighted” that Ms Berger has accepted his invitation to rejoin the party.

Luciana Berger is back in the Labour Party thanks to leader Keir Starmer dealing with its antisemitism problem.The former Liverpool Wavertree MP accepted an ...

\u201cThis is an important moment for Keir Starmer & the changes he has brought about in #Labour I never felt @lucianaberger had \u201cleft\u201d Labour but that she had been driven out. [Sign up](https://www.independent.co.uk/newsletters?itm_channel=native&itm_campaign=footer&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=newsletters) to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter \u201cI am personally thrilled to see @lucianaberger rejoin @UKLabour \n\nUnder @Keir_Starmer Labour has risen from the depths of depravity. I always thought she was hugely courageous in the face of appalling antisemitism & abuse. \u201cWe are sorry that we left you. [Politics](https://www.indy100.com/politics/)

Luciana Berger, a former Labour MP, is rejoining the party four years after leaving in protest at its handling of allegations of antisemitism. Berger.

He said Berger had suffered abuse and had been left “isolated and exposed” and that the party and British politics were “poorer places” without her. In his letter, Starmer said that Berger had been “forced out by intimidation, thuggery and racism” and had made a “brave move”. Berger has now accepted an apology from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who said the party had experienced a “litany of failures”.

Former lawmaker accepts leader Keir Starmer's written apology and invitation to come back; says party has 'turned a significant corner' since he succeeded ...

Sign in to stop seeing this](//crm.timesofisrael.com/sign-in) The party later became Change UK but Berger left in June 2019. If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. Someone called her a “disruptive Zionist.” “But that is exactly what happened.” She later campaigned unsuccessfully for a rival party.

Luciana Berger's return to the Labour party after being hounded out is not only a restoration but a supreme act of forgiveness.

His apology on behalf of the party should be accompanied by one on his own behalf. I submit that many wouldn’t, that they would consider racism simply beyond the pale and the Labour party beyond recovery. My question was at the time and still is now: would they have done the same had the racism been directed at any other racial or ethnic group? As Sir Keir writes in an open letter to his former colleague, she was ‘forced out by intimidation, thuggery and racism’ and ‘shamefully, those who should have defended you stood by’. Shinwell paused his speech, walked across the gangway, socked Bower right in the jaw, then turn to the Speaker and said: ‘May I make a personal explanation?’ Berger fought to hold on to her party, not wishing to hand a victory to Jew-haters.

The former Labour MP has returned to the fold after exiting due to facing antisemitism during Jeremy Corbyn's time as leader.

However, she said she was “not chomping at the bit to go back” and saw other ways, outside of returning to Westminster, of campaigning for a Labour government. “And it’s under Keir’s leadership and what he’s now doing — everything’s not fixed, everything’s not perfect, but certainly the party has returned to a place that it should be. Luciana Berger has spoken of the warm reception that has greeted her since she returned to Labour, but she admitted the party is still “not perfect”.