The Labour peer who blamed his jail term for dangerous driving on a Jewish conspiracy was facing expulsion from the party last night after senior figures reacted with horror to his comments.

Ed Miliband led the criticism of Lord Ahmed, who was suspended by Labour after his views were revealed by The Times yesterday.

Lord Ahmed claimed that influential Jews put pressure on the courts in response to his support for Palestinians in Gaza, comments that the Labour leader described as disgraceful.

Mr Miliband suggested that there would be no way back for the Muslim peer. “There’s no place for anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, and frankly anybody who makes those kinds of comments cannot be either a Labour lord or a Labour Member of