{"id":376424,"date":"2018-09-07T08:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pro-israel-uk-labour-mp-joan-ryan-loses-confidence-vote\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T08:18:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:18:03","slug":"presstv-pro-israel-uk-labour-mp-joan-ryan-loses-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pro-israel-uk-labour-mp-joan-ryan-loses-confidence-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Pro-Israel UK Labour MP Joan Ryan loses confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A leading pro-Israel Member of Parliament in the UK Labour Party has lost a vote of confidence over her criticism of party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the anti-Semitisim row within Labour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joan Ryan, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel, was\u00a0targeted for deselection by members of her constituency, who said she had\u00a0&#8220;smeared&#8221; Corbyn&#8217;s character and &#8220;fuelled&#8221; the anti-Semitism storm that has engulfed the party this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Enfield North, a peripheral Greater London constituency, came out in large numbers to vote after a motion of no confidence had been called on the rebel MP.<\/p>\n<p>After a lengthy meeting which included six speakers debating either for or against Ryan, the over 100 members in attendance cast their votes. When asked &#8220;do you support the motion of no confidence in Joan Ryan?&#8221; The results given were 95 yes to 92 no.<\/p>\n<p>It is being seen as the potential start of a formal deselection process, which ultimately involves a \u201ctrigger&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/07\/573412\/UK-Labour-Party-MP-Joan-Ryan-antiSemitisim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading pro-Israel Member of Parliament in the UK Labour Party has lost a vote of confidence over her criticism of party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the anti-Semitisim row within Labour. Joan Ryan, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel, was\u00a0targeted for deselection by members of her constituency, who said she had\u00a0&#8220;smeared&#8221; Corbyn&#8217;s character and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}