MARAGARET Hodge today refused to endorse Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as PM as the number of his candidates embroiled in slur scandals rose to 12.
Dame Margaret, one of the partys most prominent Jewish figures, dropped the bombshell in an interview.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been engulfed in slur scandals
Asked on BBC 4s Today programme whether she would prefer Mr Corbyn or Boris Johnson in Downing Street, she replied: I want a Labour government.
Pressed on the issue, she would only add: I think any government is more than any individual. And I want a Labour government.
Meanwhile four wannabe Labour MPs were being exposed within 24 hours over sexist and racist comments.
Experts said they made up a dodgy dozen raising serious questions about Labours vetting process.
SICK INSULTS
Three of the latest to be unmasked dropped out of the Election. But the fourth Ian Byrne is still clinging on tonight.
Byrne, selected for the safe Labour seat of Liverpool Derby West, colluded in sick jibes against female politicians and made a rape joke.
Hours after he appeared at a Manchester rally with Mr Corbyn it emerged he shared a Facebook message about underwear tycoon and Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone. It included a call to hit the c*** where it hurts.
Among other sick insults, he even wrote it would only be a matter of time before Boris Johnsons mum comes forward and tells us that she was raped by Jimmy Saville [sic].
Dame Margaret Hodge refused to endorse Mr Corbyn as PM
Liz Truss, Minister for Women and Equalities, has said the Labour leader is ‘simply not fit to lead’
Baroness Mone told The Sun: In the business world, he would have been sacked on the spot.
Ian Byrnes candidacy shames the Labour Party. He is not fit to be an MP.
Meanwhile three candidates did stand down Gideon Bull, Kate Ramsden and Frances Hoole.
Liz Truss, Minister for Women and Equalities, said: Mr Corbyn promised a kinder politics yet his feeble response to this crisis in his party shows that he is simply not fit to lead.
Ian Byrne
Ian Byrne wrote vile messages about female politicians
IAN Byrne shared a vile message about the Tory peer and underwear tycoon Baroness Michelle Mone, calling on his followers to hit the c*** where it hurts.
He also called Tory minister Esther McVey a b*****d…and soon to be gone and made slurs about Boris Johnsons mum being raped by Jimmy Savile.
In another post in 2014 he called Prince William a horse faced t**t on Facebook.
Mr Byrne said: I am deeply sorry for the inappropriate and offensive language from the shop floor that I used several years ago on social media and would not use today.
Zarah Sultana
THE paid Labour staffer is taking her first shot at Parliament.
In 2015 she tweeted that she would celebrate the deaths of Tony Blair, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and George Bush.
She has also written of her support for the violent resistance by Palestinians.
She has apologised for her comments, made when she was a student.
Laura McAlpine
Laura McAlpine refused to condemn an aide’s Jewish comment
DEFENDED her chief campaigner who wrote about a Jewish final solution in Palestine.
She supported Brett Hawksbee in emails to colleagues after he wrote about a Jewish final solution to the Palestine problem.
She resisted calls from party officials to condemn him.
An email to Labour staffers reads: She doesnt want to be disloyal to someone who organises so much for her.
Ali Milani
Ali Milani called for Israel to be destroyed
MR Milani, 25, is fighting to oust Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his constituency of Uxbridge, West London.
He has admitted tweeting anti-Semitic remarks while a teenager and calling for Israel to be destroyed.
He has also claimed that the 9/11 attacks in 2001 were a false flag.
After a massive outcry, he has apologised for the remarks.
Jackie Schneider
THE Corbynista has called the Queen the countrys biggest welfare scrounger.
She has tweeted: Why did we let the Queen have so many useless children?
Music teacher Ms Schneider, standing in Wimbledon, South West London, was backed by hard-left Corbyn supporters Momentum.
Her tweets show that she is an ardent republican and anti-nuclear campaigner.
Apsana Begum
SHARED a Facebook post suggesting Saudi Arabias leaders were inspired by their Zionist masters.
She is a senior activist in the Jeremy Corbyn-backing Momentum group and hopes to succeed Labour veteran Jim Fitzpatrick.
Police were called to her selection ballot amid scenes of total chaos that witnesses said left female voters feeling intimidated.
Jane Aitchison
COMPARED celebrating the death of Tony Blair to Adolf Hitler in a bizarre radio interview.
Asked whether she was defending someone who would celebrate the death of Mr Blair, she said: No, Im not, what Im saying is that people for instance, they celebrated the death of Hitler.
She is taking on Tory Stuart Andrew, who has a tiny majority of 331 in Pudsey, West Yorks.
Frances Hoole
STEPPED down after she sent an offensive tweet slagging off her SNP rival Joanna Cherry.
She shared an offensive image of Ms Cherry with the message: Bang! And the terf is gone.
A terf is an offensive term for a feminist who discriminates against transgender people.
Ms Cherry had shared the tweet and said she had received a death threat for defending womens rights.
Ms Hoole apologised, saying: I am genuinely really sorry I posted it. Im sorry about the violent content.
Gideon Bull
ACCUSED of calling a Jewish woman Shylock, which is considered an anti-Semitic slur, and, in a separate incident, of repeating the words n****r and P**i.
Mr Bull, a councillor in Haringey, North London, admitted using the word Shylock but said he had no idea it can be seen as racist and did not direct it personally at anyone.
And he insisted that he immediately apologised when somebody said it was offensive.
Hours after the news broke, fresh allegations surfaced that he repeated the N-word and the P-word while a councillor.
Sophie Wilson
BRANDED women campaigning against a Spearmint Rhino strip bar trashy and SWERFs a slur that means having a phobia of prostitutes.
A formal complaint was made against the Sheffield councillor, 23, and she was found to have potentially breached council rules.
South Yorks Fire and Rescue employee Ms Wilson was given guidance on the use of social media.
Kate Ramsden
THE wannabe MP has made a series of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli slurs.
She compared Israel to an abused child who becomes an abusive adult.
And she reportedly claimed Labours anti-Semitism crisis was orchestrated by the wealthy establishment.
She quit as the candidate for the Scottish seat of Gordon after an outcry over her remarks.
She said: I can see that many Jewish people have been hurt by my words.
That was never my intention and I apologise unreservedly.
Matt Uberoi
HE was jailed in 2009 for a 120,000 insider trading scam with his dentist dad.
Mr Uberoi, 34, standing in Chelsea and Fulham, West London, said he would have been fully within his rights to keep his conviction secret.
But he and Labour both said that he had instead been upfront and honest to the local and national party and had learned from his mistake.
