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Members of a Merseyside Labour group attempted to "demand" an apology from MP Luciana Berger for what they said were "deeply offensive" comments made in an interview.

A motion submitted to the Birkenhead Constituency Labour Party for a meeting last week said that the group "deplored" the words of Ms Berger, who was speaking about the anti-Semitism row that has engulfed the Labour party in recent months.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster, the Wavertree MP was discussing how certain local Labour groups have responded to the anti-Semitism row.

Referring to what is believed to be the Birkenhead CLP, Ms Berger told the programme: "We also heard from a meeting in my region, on Merseyside last week where an executive were meeting and a proposal was put to them to bring forward the training that the Jewish Labour Movement, an organisation which is one of the longest standing affiliated socialist societies within the Labour party, but they said they were in receipt of funding from the Israeli government. Well that's categorically untrue.

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"Someone in that meeting was able to verify the fact that it was categorically untrue, but in spite of that they still rejected the opportunity to provide anti-Semitism training to their members."

Responding to the comments, a motion was put forward to a meeting of the Birkenhead CLP on Friday.

The motion stated: "This executive committee deplores Luciana Berger's account on BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster of our 12 January meeting and resolves to send her a letter demanding an apology on the grounds that her account was misleading and deeply offensive to committee members."

The ECHO understands that the motion did not pass in its original format - losing out on a very narrow vote between members of the CLP.

Instead, the wording of the motion was softened before being passed.

This is not the first time that Ms Berger has found herself at odds with CLP groups in Merseyside.

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Last year, her own Wavertree CLP was taken over by Jeremy Corbyn supporters - some of whom demanded she apologised for previously quitting the leader's top team as part of an attempted coup.

More recently, the Wavertree CLP passed a motion criticising their MP for backing Prime Minister Theresa May's stance over the Salisbury poisoning incident involving former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

The successful motion argued that Ms Berger had helped to provide the Tories with a "propaganda victory".

Ms Berger has been approached for a comment.