Jackie Walker removed as vice-chair of Momentum in anti-Semitism row

Labour's Jackie Walker has been removed from her position as vice-chair of pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum after making controversial comments about anti-Semitism at a party training event.

Leaked footage showed Ms Walker questioning why Holocaust Memorial Day was not more wide-ranging to include other genocides, and she also said had not found a definition of anti-Semitism she could "work with".

Ms Walker was suspended from Labour last week over the comments, and on Monday Momentum's steering committee voted seven-three to remove her from her position as vice-chair.

The group said it does not regard her comments individually as anti-Semitic but said that it "does consider her remarks on Holocaust Memorial Day and on security of Jewish schools to be ill-informed, ill-judged and offensive".

They added: "In such circumstances, the committee feels that Jackie should have done more to explain herself to mitigate the upset caused and should have been careful about statements on this and related subjects, whatever her record as an anti-racist, which the committee applauds."

Momentum said it was concerned that the leak "undermined much needed political education" and said she should not ultimately be expelled from the Labour Party.

Ms Walker, who is Jewish, previously released a statement apologising for any offence.

In an interview with Channel 4 News, she questioned why the Holocaust only marked genocides that happened after the Nazis.

When she was asked whether she had considered resigning given the outrage among some Jewish groups, Ms Walker said: "Some other prominent Jewish groups, of which I'm a member, think a very different thing."

Ms Walker said whoever leaked the footage from a Labour Party anti-Semitism training event "had malicious intent in their mind".

She also said she was anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic, adding: "I think Zionism is a political ideology, and like any political ideology, some people will be supportive and some people won't be supportive of it. That's a very different thing."