Ex-Labour MP Ian Austin becomes May's trade envoy to Israel
Ian Austin, who quit the Labour Party in February but has declined to hold a by-election
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AN MP who quit Labour in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s trade envoy to Israel.
Ian Austin abandoned the Labour Party in February to become an independent member.
The long-standing critic of Jeremy Corbyn, who swore at and heckled the leader during his public apology to the people of Iraq for the 2003 invasion of the country, claimed there was a “culture” of anti-semitism in Labour.
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