A cartoon in the left-leaning Guardian newspaper of Keir Starmer offering Jeremy Corbyn’s decapitated head on a platter has been reported as race hate – amid a storm of anti-semitism claims. The picture, drawn by regular artist Steve Bell, was likened to Italian painter Caravaggio’s Salome with the Head of John the Baptist. It portrays … Read more
Labour takes FIVE-POINT leader over Tories in the polls as Boris Johnson’s personal approval rating falls to the WORST of his premiership amid increasing pessimism over the economy Ipsos MORI poll today puts Labour on 42% (+5) and the Tories on 37% (-3) Boris Johnson’s personal popularity has also taken a battering PM has net … Read more
Labour takes FIVE-POINT leader over Tories in the polls as Boris Johnson’s personal approval rating falls to the WORST of his premiership amid increasing pessimism over the economy Ipsos MORI poll today puts Labour on 42% (+5) and the Tories on 37% (-3) Boris Johnson’s personal popularity has also taken a battering PM has net … Read more
Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn poured around £10,000 into a ‘legal fund’ for the former Labour leader on Thursday as he was suspended from his party for downplaying a damning report into anti-Semitism. The donations were made to a Go Fund Me site set up in July by a supporter after Mr Corbyn faced legal action … Read more
What an extraordinarily dramatic, shaming moment this is. Extraordinary for British politics; shaming for the Labour Party; and in our lifetimes, at least, utterly without precedent. Even a few years ago, for one of the two great parties to cast out its own former leader, less than a year after he stepped down, would have … Read more
Here, Policy Editor Daniel Martin details some of the most shocking examples of Labour anti-Semitism that were contained in the EHRC report – as well as those that weren’t. Detailed in the report Pam Bromley, councillor in Rossendale, Lancashire, denied anti-Semitism was an issue in Labour and used tropes such as calling Jews a ‘fifth … Read more
The charges against Labour in damning 130-page report Labour breached the Equality Act 2010 by committing ‘unlawful harassment’ in two of the complaints investigated. They included ‘using antisemitic tropes and suggesting that complaints of antisemitism were fake or smears’. One of the cases involved Ken Livingstone, who in 2016 defended MP Naz Shah over claims of … Read more
What an extraordinarily dramatic, shaming moment this is. Extraordinary for British politics; shaming for the Labour Party; and in our lifetimes, at least, utterly without precedent. Even a few years ago, for one of the two great parties to cast out its own former leader, less than a year after he stepped down, would have … Read more
The charges against Labour in damning 130-page report Labour breached the Equality Act 2010 by committing ‘unlawful harassment’ in two of the complaints investigated. They included ‘using antisemitic tropes and suggesting that complaints of antisemitism were fake or smears’. One of the cases involved Ken Livingstone, who in 2016 defended MP Naz Shah over claims of … Read more
Mr Corbyn pictured leaving his house in North London this morning, wearing a face mask incorrectly Labour was mired in a ‘day of shame’ today after it was found to have illegally harassed and discriminated against Jews under Jeremy Corbyn by a damning report into anti-Semitism under his leadership. A landmark review by the Equality … Read more