The former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke called on the party to reinstate Campbell and said he also voted Liberal Democrat in the European elections. “His expulsion from Labour party membership is a disgrace and only compounds Labour’s current political difficulties,” Clarke said in a statement. “I think that there are people in Jeremy Corbyn’s office, senior positions in Jeremy Corbyn’s office, who have recommended voting against the Labour party,” he said. He said: “I want to vote Labour at the general election but that will depend on the policy that the Labour Party puts forward between now and then in relation to Brexit.”A Labour party spokeswoman said Campbell had been expelled because “support for another political party or candidate is incompatible with party membership”. “The party’s rulebook is clear.”Labour’s rulebook says that any party member who supports a political organisation other than Labour, or supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate, is ineligible to be or remain a party member and is therefore automatically excluded from membership.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2019 11:30 UTC