By Tony O'Riley-
Jeremy Corbyn is being hunted by his alleged soft approach to anti semetism in his party, after one of his Jewish Mps refused to endorse him as future prime minister of the Uk.
Dame Margaret who is seeking re-election as MP for Barking has repeatedly accused Corbyn of failing to tackle anti-Semitism within the Labour party and appeared to be hinting preference for a different leader to rule the party in the event of a victorious election for Labour.
Corbyn has already began campaigning to lead the Labour party, and will be Britain’s prime minister if Labour wins the elections. However, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Ms Margaret was aked whether she would prefer Mr Corbyn or Mr Johnson as prime minister, but she replied: “I want a Labour government.”
When pressed for a specific answer, she again dodged the question , saying: “I think any government is more than any individual. And I want a Labour government.
“And I think that was as true of the past as it is of the present. She added that she had faced “some hostility” to the work she had done around fighting anti-Semitism. Gideon Bull, the prospective parliamentary candidate for Clacton, apologised after a Jewish councillor complained about a reference he made to “Shylock” – the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice.
“I do think it’s a terrible reflection that actually there is myself and Ruth Smeeth and we’re the only two women Jewish MPs left on the Labour side,” she said.