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| General Election 2019: Labour bans three MPs from standing for party | General Election 2019: Labour bans three MPs from standing for party |
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| Three Labour MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn ally Chris Williamson - have been banned from standing for the party by its National Executive Committee. | Three Labour MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn ally Chris Williamson - have been banned from standing for the party by its National Executive Committee. |
| Derby North MP Mr Williamson was suspended in an anti-Semitism row. | Derby North MP Mr Williamson was suspended in an anti-Semitism row. |
| Jarrow MP Stephen Hepburn was being investigated over a sexual harassment claim - denied by him - while Roger Godsiff was facing a reselection battle in Birmingham Hall Green. | Jarrow MP Stephen Hepburn was being investigated over a sexual harassment claim - denied by him - while Roger Godsiff was facing a reselection battle in Birmingham Hall Green. |
| New candidates will be chosen to replace them. | New candidates will be chosen to replace them. |
| Labour's ruling National Executive Committee has not made a final decision on whether Keith Vaz can stand for the party, the BBC understands. | |
| The Leicester East MP was last week suspended from the House of Commons for six months by a standards watchdog. | |
| Mr Vaz "disregarded" the law by "expressing a willingness" to help buy cocaine for male prostitutes, the Commons standards commission said in a scathing report. | |
| His Labour colleague, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, said after the ruling that he should "consider his position". | |
| "I think he himself should agree not to be a candidate," she told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. | |
| The MP did not make any comment on his suspension, but a spokesman said he was receiving treatment for a serious mental health condition. |