Wes Streeting says Labour may be “turning a corner” after an official at the centre party’s anti-Semitism storm quit her senior role.

The Ilford North MP, who is co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Jews, welcomed Christine Shawcroft’s resignation as head of Labour’s internal disputes panel.

Ms Shawcroft has since also stood down from the party’s NEC, after it emerged she had opposed the suspension of a council candidate accused of denying the Holocaust.

"Good riddance,” Mr Streeting tweeted in response to the activist’s resignation.

"This is the sort of thing that we're up against. Good riddance. Maybe, just maybe, we are turning a corner on tackling antisemitism in our party," he added.

Ms Shawcroft had faced calls from Mr Streeting and more than 30 other Labour MPs to step down after an email she had sent in support of council candidate Alan Bull.

Mr Bull, who had been due to stand for the party in Peterborough for local elections in May, was suspended after sharing an article on Facebook which claimed the Holocaust was a “hoax”.

He denies the post was anti-Semitic in nature and claims he shared the story for the purposes of debate.

Ms Shawcroft, a director of the pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum, had said in emails she was “concerned” to hear of Mr Bull’s suspension and his post had been taken “out of context”.

She later said she had been unaware of the “abhorrent” Facebook post that had first prompted his suspension from the party.

Ms Shawcroft has since resigned as both Labour’s disputes chief and from its NEC, where she has been replaced by comedian Eddie Izzard.

The row prompted a demonstration outside Parliament by hundreds of Jewish activists and attended by Labour MPs including Mr Streeting and Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy calling on the party to do more to tackle claims of anti-Semitism within its ranks.

The move sparked a counter-protest from the group “Labour Against the Witch-Hunt”, which believes allegations of anti-Semitism within the party are being made to smear leader Mr Corbyn.