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Labour has re-admitted MP Kate Osamor, who was suspended after she used Holocaust Memorial Day to claim Gaza is being subjected to a genocide.

Labour has confirmed this afternoon that they have returned the whip to the Edmonton MP, who used the sombre day to say there is an “international duty” to remember victims of the Holocaust, as well as “more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza”.

Despite subsequently tweeting an apology, Labour’s chief whip stripped her of the party whip, meaning she has sat as an independent MP since January.

Ms Osamor was administratively suspended from Labour after she made the controversial comments.

She has now been re-admitted, having received a formal written warning.

However the move to welcome her back into the Labour Party will compound controversy, sparked by Sir Keir Starmer, to allow Tory MP Natalie Elphicke to defect this lunchtime.

Many onlookers have criticised Sir Keir’s embrace of the hard-right Tory MP, …