Ruth Smeeth, the former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North has said that she does not understand why Rebecca Long-Bailey “has chosen this hill to have a fight with the leader of the Labour party on”.

Long-Bailey was sacked after she shared an article on social media which Sir Keir Starmer claimed expressed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

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