(Guardian-UK) David Batty - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said Friday, "I have decided that Jenny Tonge will stand down as Liberal Democrat health spokesperson in the Lords following her unacceptable comments suggesting an inquiry into highly offensive allegations against the IDF humanitarian operation in Haiti....The comments were wrong, distasteful and provocative." In 2004, she was sacked as a spokeswoman on children's issues after she told a pro-Palestinian meeting she could consider becoming a suicide bomber.
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