Labour MP Naz Shah suspended from party over antisemitism row - as it happened

More on the BuzzFeed allegation. (See 3.55pm.) This is from the Jewish Chronicle’s Marcus Dysch.

According to BuzzFeed’s Jim Waterson, the original draft of the apology Naz Shah issued this morning was edited by Labour HQ before it was published to remove mention of the term “antisemitic”.

Here is a Guardian video of Naz Shah’s apology.

The Hillsborough statement is now over.

Immediately afterwards the Labour MP Naz Shah rose to make a point of order and used it to make a “wholehearted apology” to the Commons for the Facebook posts she made before she became an MP.

She said she understood why the words she used caused offence. Antisemitism is racism, full stop, she said.

She said that as an MP she would do everything she could to improve relations between Muslims, Jews and people of all faiths.

I will post the full quotes shortly.

Labour’s Toby Perkins asks May if she has confidence in the chief constable of South Yorkshire Police.

May says there will be elections to for the police and crime commissioner next week. She goes one to say:

It behoves South Yorkshire Police to recognise the import of the verdicts that were brought out yesterday. I hope that we will not see attempts to try and somehow suggest that those verdicts were not clear, or in any way wrong. That jury sat through 296 days of evidence and they were clear about the role of South Yorkshire Police officers.

Andrew Slaughter, the Labour MP and shadow justice minister, asks May to think carefully about her plan to get rid of the European convention on human rights. He says the ECHR guarantees that inquests like this one go ahead.

May says the attorney general made a statement on the ECHR yesterday. But she says she is concerned about the need to get to the truth when there are unexplained deaths. That is why she set up an inquiry into deaths in custody, she says.

Labour’s Mike Kane says he used to follow his football team at Hillsborough. “Apart from going to hell”, what will happen to those who lied about what happened there, he asks.

May says that is a matter for the criminal investigations.

The Times has admitted today that it made a mistake when it did not mention Hillsborough on the front page of its first edition, my colleague Jane Martinson reports.

Labour’s David Anderson asks May what action will be taken to expose everyone, including elected officials, who played any role in this cover-up, by omission or commission. Because they are as guilty as everyone else, he says. There are people who need to be called to account.

May says the report from the Hillsborough Independent Panel showed the truth of what had happened. That required organisations that had previously been silent to come forward and give evidence.

She says there has been a “collective recognition” in the Commons today that the procedures that should have led to the truth coming out failed.

The Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke asks May if she would support merging the various Yorkshire police forces. That would get rid of the name of South Yorkshire Police, he says.

May says Shelbrooke knows that government’s view on merging police forces. (She is opposed.) But she says South Yorkshire Police needs to reflect on yesterday’s verdict.

• May says she is opposed to merger of Yorkshire police forces.

And this is what Theresa May said in her opening statement about the criminal investigations underway, and the possible offences that may have been committed.

The House will understand that I cannot comment in detail on matters that may lead to a criminal investigation. I can, however, say that the offences under investigation include gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office, perverting the course of justice and perjury, as well as offences under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

Here is the start of the Press Association story about Theresa May’s statement.

Ministers must consider how the state responds to disasters like Hillsborough to make sure the suffering of families is better taken into account, Theresa May said as she praised victims’ relatives for their “extraordinary dignity and determination”.

An inquest jury ruled that the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the Sheffield stadium disaster in 1989 were unlawfully killed and there are now calls for further action to be taken.

The home secretary read the jury’s determinations in full to a hushed House of Commons as she outlined the criminal charges that are being investigated.

The inquest lasted two years and found that blunders by South Yorkshire’s police and ambulance services “caused or contributed to” the deaths.

The jury found that Liverpool fans were not to blame for what happened.

May said the outcome of the inquest was of “national significance”.

“The conclusion of the inquest brings to an end an important step since the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report,” she said.

“Thanks to that report and now the determinations of the inquests we know the truth of what happened on that day at Hillsborough.

“Naturally the families will want to reflect on yesterday’s historic outcome which is of national significance.

“I am also clear that this raises significant issues for the way that the state and its agencies deal with disasters.

“Once the formal investigations are concluded we should step back, reflect and act if necessary so that we can better respond to disasters and ensure that the suffering of families is taken into account.”

These are from the BBC’s Vicki Young.

Joanna Cherry, the SNP’s justice and home affairs spokeswoman, says this ranks with Bloody Sunday as “one of the most disgraceful cover-ups of our time”.

She says she agrees with Burnham about the need to take action to stop police officers being able to evade disciplinary action by retiring.

And she says the relatives might never have got another inquest if it had not been for the European convention on human rights, because the ECHR guarantees the right to have incidents of this kind properly investigated.

May says responds to the ECHR by saying the right to request an inquest, and fresh inquest, existed in the UK long before the ECHR was drawn up.

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general, says mistakes will always be made. The real issue is how long it took for the relatives to get redress, and a proper account of the issues. This is not a unique event, he says. There have been similar episodes, like Bloody Sunday. He says Theresa May has done “everything right”. But this is not just about systems; it is about attitudes, and the tendency to brush away problems that make us uncomfortable.

May is responding to Burnham.

She says most of the general public believed the stories they read about the fans.

To have stood up against that showed a steely determination, and a passionate commitment to justice. We will rarely see that again, she says.

On the timings of the decisions about criminal prosecutions, she says files will go to the CPS around the end of the year. Then the CPS will need time to consider them. She understands why people want this to happen more quickly. But this has to be done quickly.

On police officers avoiding misconduct proceedings by retiring, May says she has always thought this was wrong. She is happy to meet Labour to discuss this.

On the Leveson inquiry, she says the government will consider whether to go ahead with phase two of the inquiry when all prosecutions are over.

Burnham says he wants to finish by paying tribute to the relatives. It has been the privilege of his life to stand alongside them, he says. They represent the best of what this country is.

Burnham receives a round of applause - a highly unusual move in the Commons, and a tribute to what was a remarkably moving and powerful statement.

Burnham says the families were not properly represented at earlier stages in this process. One of the reasons they were successful at the inquest was that, at last, they had the best legal representation.

He says it is wrong that public bodies can spend as much as they want defending themselves in inquests, while families cannot do that.

He says Westminster was involved. He says the cover-up was defended in committee rooms in the Commons, and in the press room at Number 10.

But Theresa May played no part in that, he says. He pays tribute to her for ensuring the inquest got to the truth.

Burnham says collusion between the police and the print media made Hillsborough worse.

He says the Leveson inquiry recommendations need to be fully implemented.

Burnham is now going through those issues in detail.

He urges May to ensure that decisions on prosecution are taken before the end of the year.

Will the government include a Hillsborough clause into the crime bill to ensure that police officers cannot evade misconduct charges by retiring, with no cost to their pension. And this should be retrospective, he says.

He says millions of pounds were spend during the inquest recycling discredited lies. If the South Yorkshire Police had maintained their apology, the inquest would have been much shorter. He says South Yorkshire Police had apologised, but they went back on that. He says it pains him to say Yorkshire Ambulance Service did the same. He says the South Yorkshire chief constable should resign.

• Burnham calls for South Yorkshire chief constable to resign.

He says there were similarities between what happened at Hillsborough and what happened at Orgreave. He calls for full publication of the papers relating to Orgreave.

• Burnham claims secret Orgeave papers show a direct link between what happened at Hillsborough and what happened at Orgreave.

He says South Yorkshire Police was corrupt. All solutions should be considered to clean it up, he says.

Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary and leading campaigner on behalf of the Hillsborough families, is responding to May.

He says there was a 27-year cover up.

He thanks the jury for what they did. The verdict was “simple, clear, powerful and emphatic”.

But how could something so obvious take so long? There are three reason.

First, the police force covered up what they did.

Second, there was collusion between the police and the print media.

And, third, the justice system was flawed.

May says for 27 years the families have fought for justice. They have faced opposition, hostility and obfuscation.

The authorities tried to protect themselves, instead of acting in the public interest.

The families did not give up. They were extraordinary. She says MPs should recognise their courage and resolve.

She says she hopes that for the families and survivors yesterday’s verdict will bring them closer to the peace they deserve.

She says Bishop James has agreed to stay on as her adviser on Hillsborough.

May says the Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether there will be prosecutions, on the basis of the criminal investigations.

She says possible offences being investigated include gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office, perverting the course of justice, perjury, offences against the Sports Grounds Act and offences against the Health and Safety Act.

She says decisions on prosecutions should be taken around the end of the year.

But she says she wants to ensure that support for the families continues.

May says the jury also heard evidence about the “valiant efforts” made by many fans to save people. There is cheering for this.

She says the verdict that the victims were unlawfully killed is of great public importance.

But they do not amount to a finding of criminal liability. And no one should impute criminal liability while investigations are still being carried out, she says.

This is from the Mirror’s Jack Blanchard.

And this is from the former Independent on Sunday political editor Jane Merrick.

May is now summarising the jury’s findings.

She says she wants to put those findings on the record. She reads them out.

The 14 questions for the jury, and the answers the jury gave to each of them, are set out here.

May says there are two criminal investigations underway.

Since the fresh inquest opened in 2014 the jury heard 296 days’ of evidence. It was the longest inquest in British legal history.

She says MPs will want to thank the jury for their public service.

May says the relatives suffered the injustice of hearing their loved ones blamed.

She has met members of the families on a number of occasions. She has never failed to be struck by “their extraordinary dignity and determination”.

She says they have never given up.

She pays tribute to Andy Burnham for campaigning tirelessly on their behalf, and to other Liverpool MPs for their campaigning too.

May says her statement will cover the inquest, and the steps that will now take place.

She says the events at Hillsborough shocked the country. She summarises what happened. It was this country’s worst disaster at a sporting event.

She says the search by families to get to the truth has been “long and arduous”.

The Conservative Julian Lewis says Britain’s admiration for France will never diminish, no matter what happens in the referendum. He asks Cameron to pay tribute to Bill Cash’s father, who was killed fighting in France after the Normandy invasion, and to a veteran who is due to receive the legion d’honneur in his 90s for his wartime service.

Cameron pays tribute to those who served in the war.

Labour’s Emma Reynolds says millions of Britons from the European health insurance card. What would happen to that if we left the EU?

Cameron says this is one of the benefits we have year. We can make the system better. It is those in favour of leaving who need to explain what would happen to that system if we left.

Labour’s Yvette Cooper says Cameron, in his reply to Angus Robertson earlier (which I missed because I was doing the PMQS summary) said child refugees in Europe are safe. They are not, she says. She says there are 1,000 in Greece who have nowhere to sleep. And they are exposed to sexual exploitation. Why won’t the government accept the Dubs amendment?

Cameron says the government is taking child refugees from refugees camps. It has nothing to be ashamed of, he says.

John Stevenson, a Conservative, asks if decisions on nuclear power and nuclear submarines will be made soon.

Cameron says there will be a vote in the Commons on Trident.

Labour’s Judith Cummins asks if Cameron is committed to the electrification of the Calder Valley line.

Cameron says commitments have been made on electrification. He wants everywhere to benefit from the Northern Powerhouse.

Mike Wood, a Conservative, asks about an enterprise zone in his Dudley South constituency.

Cameron says enterprise zones have been a success.

Labour’s Liz McInnnes asks if Cameron agrees that sentences for causing death by dangerous driving should be higher.

Cameron says he has every sympathy for families affected. The maximum current sentence is 14 years, but the government will look at this, he says.

Suella Fernandes, a Conseratives, asks Cameron to reassure MPs of his commitment to fighting antisemitism.

Cameron says antisemitism is racism and we should fight it. He says it is “extraordinary” that a Labour MP who talked about the “transportation” of Israel and that being a “solution” still has the Labour whip.

Cameron says there was no British steel in the new Forth Bridge. He says, unlike the Scottish government, the Westminster government backs the British steel industry.

Labour’s Ben Bradshaw asks about the EU referendum and Nigel Farage - pronouncing his name to rhyme with garage.

Cameron says he is pleased Bradshaw has gone for the English pronunciation, rather than the rather “poncy” foreign one that is more common.

Corbyn says the number of pupils in over-sized councils is getting worse. And he quotes Conservative council leaders who are opposed to the policy.

Cameron says he is glad Corbyn is quoting Tory council leaders. He hopes there will be more in 10 days’ time. There are 13,000 more teachers than in 2010. He quotes someone from the Academies Trust saying she used to be opposed to academies, but is now coming round to the idea. He says he backs aspiration and opportunity. Labour want to hold it back.

Corbyn says there seems to be a pattern developing here.

(That generates laughter, because Corbyn is asking similar questions to last week.)

Corbyn says, in health and education, ministers are imposing solutions. When will the goverment listen to the professionals, and trust other people to run services.

Cameron says 1.9m more people are being treated in the NHS, and there are 1.3m more children in good schools. There is another pattern he can see. He is on his fifth Labour leader. Soon he could be on his sixth.

Corbyn says it has been claimed the government will let councils form academy trusts. This would give them more power. So why bother with forced academisation?

Camerons says he wants schools to be good or outstanding. And good and outstanding schools can improve.

He urges Labour MPs to be quiet, and to deal with the anti-semites in the party.

There are lots of ways schools can become academies. They can look at working with local authorities. Academies are great, he says. He says Labour is moving in favour of them.

Corbyn says sometimes repeats on TV get more viewers than first time round. (Cameron said earlier he favoured repeats.) Teacher shortages are more important, he says. Parents and teachers do not want this. Who does want this top-down reorganisation.

Cameron says Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, and the OECD are in favour. And academy trusts.

On teacher shortages, Camerons says there are more teachers and more school places than under Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn says, after 27 years, the 96 people killed at Hillsborough finally got justice. He is glad Cameron has apologised for the action of previous governments. He pays tribute to the relatives, and to Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram and other Labour MPs who campaigned on this.

Corbyn says last week Cameron said he would put rocket boosters under the academisation programme. Now the wheels seem to be falling off the rocket boosters. Can Cameron confirm that?

(He is referring to reports the government is backing down over forced academisation.)

Cameron says he has not met a rocket booster with a wheel on it, but rocket science is not his subject - or Corbyn’s. Academies raise standards, he says.

Corbyn says Cameron did not provide much of an answer. Will he legislate to force schools to become academies in the Queen’s Speech.

Cameron says he cannot pre-empt what is in the Queen’s Speech. But, on this, he can. We are going to have academies for all and it will be in the Queen’s Speech.

Mims Davies, a Conservative, says in Eastleigh the service that GPs provide is crucial. Does Cameron agree the recent announcement about £2.4bn for GPs is only possible because there is a strong government.

Cameron, as you would expect, says she’s right.

David Cameron starts by saying yesterday was a “momentous day” for the Hillsborough relatives. Their search for justice was met with obfuscation, not openness. But they never faltered. We all owe them a debt of gratitude.

Naz Shah has just tweeted this.

This is from LabourList’s Conor Pope.

The Jewish Chronicle’s Marcus Dysch thinks it is a mistake for Labour to reignite the Naz Shah story just before PMQs.

In Scotland Kezia Dugdale, Labour’s Scottish leader, has been launching her party’s manifesto for the Holyrood elections next week.

My colleague Severin Carrell published an interview with her yesterday. Here it is.

Here’s an extract.

Now she is finding “genuine warmth”, Dugdale said, on the campaign trail. Voters, she believes, like the fact that Labour is openly fighting for higher taxes on the rich, campaigning for a 50p top income tax rate in Scotland. So too do Labour activists.

“When I compare that to the sentiment during the general election, the mood has changed,” she said. “There’s a sense now that the anger has dissipated. People really like the tax policy. They like the honesty of it. They like the simple recognition that we now have the power to do things differently.”

Dugdale and her colleagues point to several seats they hope to hold or even win back from the SNP – despite the pessimism which grips Labour at national level. Given its dire standing in the polls and last year’s annihilation, winning four or five constituencies would be seen as a good result, as long as Labour comes second overall.

And here are some tweets from Sev from the manifesto launch this morning.

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, says today’s growth figures (see 9.42am) confirm the need for the government to invest more. In a statement he said:

There is clearly a growing Tory threat to our economy, whether from the Conservative backbenchers screaming for Brexit despite the mounting evidence against the case, or a Tory chancellor who is also refusing to listen to the expanding coalition of international organisations that not only warn of the risks of Brexit, but also the risks of his policy of under investing in our economy.

It is vital for the UK that George Osborne listens to the expert advice telling him not only that we must stay in the EU, but also that he must not starve our economy of investment any longer.

Labour would not stand by when we see a recovery built on sand due to George Osborne’s failure, we would stand up for jobs and growth by setting realistic targets to get rid of the deficit on day-to-day spending whilst allowing government the capacity to invest in the high-tech, high-wage economy of the future.

And here is another OECD chart, from its news release. It shows that, under the OECD’s most pessimistic scenario, Brexit could lead to GDP being almost 8% lower by 2030 than it otherwise would be, equivalent to a cost per household of £5,000.

Here is the OECD report (pdf).

And here is the key chart it contains. It shows the impact of Brexit on growth and the equivalent cost per household in pounds (GBP), in the near term (by 2020) and in the long term (by 2030). There are three long term forecasts, a central one, a pessimistic one and an optimistic one.

And here is Chris Giles, the Financial Times’s economics editor, on the growth figures.

Here is George Osborne, the chancellor, on the growth figures.

The OEC secretary general is known as Angel Gurria, but his formal name is Jose Angel Gurria and that was the name Vote Leave used in its news release. I left out the Jose when quoting their statement for the sake of consistency. But I can now see why Vote Leave included it. It was so they could use the #NoWayJose hashtag.

Angel Gurria may not be as well known in the UK as Barack Obama but his intervention in the EU debate - which has come today - may be almost as powerful as the US president’s. Gurria is secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the pro-trade body representing 34 of the world’s richest countries, and it is publishing a report today on the impact of Brexit. It seems it is going to be even more blunt about the disadvantages of leaving the EU than the Treasury’s own report was, because the OECD is saying Brexit would effectively cost Britons a month’s salary by 2020.

At least, that is what Gurria said when he was interviewed on the Today programme earlier. He said:

Brexit is like a tax. It is the equivalent to roughly missing out on about one month’s income within four years but then it carries on to 2030. That tax is going to be continued to be paid by Britons over time.

In comparison with a baseline scenario [for UK growth] they would otherwise have had in their pocket, in hand, to spend, they will not have - therefore it is as powerful, as real, as a tax or as if you would just give it over to somebody.

We have done the comparisons, we have done the simulations. In the end we come out and say: why are we spending so much time, so much effort and so much talent in trying to find ways to compensate for a bad decision when you do not necessarily have to take the bad decision?

Gurria also said that the Leave camp were wrong to think the UK could get better trade deals outside the EU.

There is absolutely no reason why you would get a sweeter trade deal than you already have, no reason why you would have a sweeter investment deal.

I will post more on this this morning.

9.30am: The ONS publishes its first quarter growth figure.

9.30am: Lady Altmann, the pensions minister, gives evidence to the work and pensions committee on intergenerational fairness.

10.30am: The OECD publishes its report on the economic consequences of Brexit.

10.30am: The Conservative MP James Cleverly gives a Vote Leave speech on the impact of the common agricultural policy on African farmers.

10.30am: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the Lord Chief Justice, gives evidence to the Lords constitution committee.

10.30am: Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, launches her party’s election manifesto.

12pm: David Cameron faces Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs.

12.30pm: Theresa May, the home secretary, makes a Commons statement on Hillsborough.

2.15pm: Arron Banks and Richard Tice, the founders of Leave.EU, give evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the EU referendum.

2.30pm: Nicky Morgan, the education committee, gives evidence to the Commons education committee.

I will be focusing in particular on PMQs, the Hillsborough statement and then, probably, the Treasury committee hearing, but as usual I will also be covering other breaking political news as it happens, as well as bringing you the best reaction, comment and analysis from the web. I will post a summary in the afternoon.

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