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The Usual Suspects? 60+ Labour Lords accuse Corbyn of failing on anti-Semitism
More than sixty Labour Lords have taken an advert out in The Guardian to accuse Jeremy Corbyn of having “failed the test of leadership” on anti-Semitism. Taking a moral stand or a cynical ploy to force the opposition leader out?
The 64 peers include former ministers, as well as Peter Mandelson, a key ally of Tony Blair’s New Labour government, and Iain McNicol, the party’s general secretary from 2011 to 2018. The highly critical ad savages Corbyn for transforming a historically anti-racist party that welcomes people of all races and creeds into one that is hostile towards Jews.
“We are not asking if you are an antisemite. We are saying you are accountable as leader for allowing antisemitism to grow in our party and presiding over the most shaming period in Labour’s history,” the polemical ad reads.
Labour peers have taken the unusual step of taking out an advertisement in tomorrow’s Guardian attacking Jeremy Corbyn.
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