Labour has sacked one of its shadow Brexit ministers for comparing Jeremy Corbyn's leadership to Adolf Hitler's "bunker" mentality.

Baroness Hayter, a senior peer in the House of Lords, had attacked top party brass for their approach to antisemitism.

She claimed they had refused to share Labour's submission to a probe into Jew hate by the European and Human Rights Commission.

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"That declaiming of intelligence, the refusal to share is an absolute symbol of the bunker mentality," HuffPost UK quoted Baroness Hayter as telling a meeting of the Labour First group.

"Those of you who haven't [read the book] will have watched the film Bunker, about the last days of Hitler, of how you stop receiving into the inner group any information which suggests that things are not going the way you want.


"That seems to be where we are at the moment: having the leadership in a bunker so they are not hearing in those views, that evidence, that is in conflict with what they are trying to do, to the extent that even undermines what they are trying to do."

She was sacked for making "deeply offensive remarks" hours after the comments were reported, a Labour spokesperson confirmed.

They added: "To compare the Labour leader and Labour Party staff working to elect a Labour government to the Nazi regime is truly contemptible, and grossly insensitive to Jewish staff in particular."

Image: Wes Streeting said it was a 'shame we can't act against racists'

Labour MP Wes Streeting called it a "gross over-reaction" to what Baroness Hayter "actually said" and only "reinforced what she did describe".

"Nice to know that swift action is taken to protect Jeremy Corbyn's feelings, but shame we can't act against racists," he added.

Baroness Hayter remains Labour's deputy leader in the House of Lords, because it is an elected position.