Ken Livingstone does it again

In an appearance on the Today programme on Monday, Ken Livingstone silenced his critics by managing to refrain from mentioning Hitler once during the course of the interview. Alas, his good behaviour wasn’t to last.

Speaking on Radio 5 Live this morning, the former Mayor of London — who is currently suspended from Labour after he argued that Hitler supported Zionism — managed to say the H-word once again. Speaking to Emma Barnett, Livingstone called for ‘right-wing’ Labour MPs — including Wes Streeting and Chuka Umunna — to be suspended. Referring to this group of non-believers, he said it’s the same group who ‘were screaming that I’d said Hitler was a Zionist and I was anti-semitic’:

‘I think the other thing that Jeremy should do is re-introduce automatic re-selection. It’s really ridiculous that MPs in safe seats have a job for life … I’m particularly talking about Chuka Umunna, Wes Streeting – basically it’s the same group of MPs who were screaming that I’d said Hitler was a Zionist and I was anti-semitic.’

Given that Livingstone is still waiting to find out if his suspension will be lifted, Mr S suspects he should refrain from turning the conversation to Hitler for the time being.