PETER KYLE has called for his party to do more to tackle anti-Semitism.

The Labour MP for Hove said the party needed to work harder in preventing actions and language that could be perceived as anti-Semitic, saying “the point of offence is the point at which we know we have failed”.

Leading a backbench debate in the Commons marking next week’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Mr Kyle also said it was “extraordinarily irresponsible” to use terms such as Nazi in a way that trivialises the horrors of the past.

Labour has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism, which its leader Jeremy Corbyn strongly denies, saying he has been a life-long campaigner against discrimination.

He also warned against references to Nazis and concentration camps, in the week Boris Johnson compared French president Francois Hollande with a Second World War guard administering “punishment beatings”.