Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey deletes tweet which saw her sacked from shadow cabinet
manchestereveningnews.co.ukRebecca Long-Bailey has deleted the tweet which led to her being sacked from the shadow cabinet.Last week, the Salford and Eccles MP shared an interview with actress Maxine Peake which Labour leader Keir Starmer said included 'an anti-semitic conspiracy theory'.Ms Long-Bailey was asked to step down from her post and has since been replaced by Stretford and Urmston MP Kate Green.In a statement released after losing her position, she said her re-tweet was 'in no way' an intention to endorse every part of that article and that the Labour Party's head office had asked her to remove both the original re-tweet and a subsequent attempt at clarification.The post was not deleted until yesterday when it was removed from Ms Long-Bailey's Twitter feed.
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