Chuka Umunna turns on Ken Livingstone at anti-Semitism hearing: 'you'll be remembered as a pin-up for prejudice'

It’s been over a month since Ken Livingstone found himself suspended from the Labour party over his claim that Hitler was a supporter of Zionism. Today the former Mayor of London was forced to face the music over his comments at the Home Affairs select committee on anti-Semitism.

Although Livingstone has experienced a fall from grace since the comments, he was in a cheerful mood at the hearing. When he wasn’t pitching for his own BBC history show on Nazi Germany — ‘I’d be delighted to do it’ — he was filling MPs in on all the ‘well-educated’ Jews who had stopped him in the street of late to offer their sympathies. ‘The number of Jews who have approached me on the street, saying “don’t the MPs read about history — I know what you said was true”,’ he declared. ‘Most Jews are well-educated, have done their history, know what I said was true.’