Luciana Berger, a former MP who quit the UK's Labour Party in 2019 citing institutional antisemitism, has rejoined the party following an apology from current leader Sir Keir Starmer. Berger,

who had been serving as the party’s MP for Liverpool Wavertree since 2010, complained that the party had “sought to dismiss and turn a blind eye” to its catalogue of complaints regarding antisemitism. In a letter to Berger, Starmer apologised for the "disgusting" and "intolerable" antisemitism she experienced during Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, stating that she had been "forced out by intimidation, thuggery and racism".

Berger tweeted on Saturday that she was "delighted" to rejoin the party and was looking forward to working with Starmer to "continue what you have started". Starmer responded, saying that Labour and British politics as a whole were "poorer places" without her, and that the abuse she suffered was "disgusting". He went on to say that the party had "fallen into the depths of the abyss" during Corbyn's reign, but that he was committed to making the party a place of "equality, collectivism, solidarity, and anti-racism".

In 2020, a report by human rights watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission concluded that the Labour Party was responsible for unlawful instances of harassment and discrimination. Corbyn rejected elements of the report and said allegations of antisemitism under his leadership had been "dramatically overstated for political reasons". He was subsequently suspended from the Labour Party. Earlier this month, Starmer confirmed that Corbyn would not be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate in the next general election, scheduled for 2024. Photo by Chris McAndrew, Wikimedia commons.