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At 10am, the British Commission for Equality and Human Rights released its official report on anti-Semitism at work under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. The report’s findings were relatively devastating. The party had violated British anti-discrimination law on three points. First, under Jeremy Corbyn, the party leadership became politically involved when employees testified about anti-Semitism. Second, those dealing with anti-Semitic accusations have not been offered any training on the issues. Third, the report found Labor guilty of harassment.
At 10.36 a statement came from Jeremy Corbyn. He admitted that the party had had problems with anti-Semitism, but also said that these were “dramatically exaggerated.” Above all, he suggested that it was all a form of political conspiracy.
During the day, the new party leader asked Jeremy Corbyn to withdraw his statement. Jeremy Corbyn refused.
Then Keir Starmer was shocked just excluding Jeremy Corbyn from the party. Jeremy Corbyn, who led the Labor Party a year ago, will now be forced to sit like a political savage in Parliament. Keir Starmer wants to show that he takes seriously his statements of “zero tolerance for racism and anti-Semitism” in the party.
Keir Starmer.
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Keir Starmer was long a mysterious figure in British politics. The former prosecutor did not enter politics until he was 50 years old. Therefore, it was impossible to place him as right or left. He was above all a competent person at a time when the party needed competent people. This is also why it was possible that Keir Starmer won the party’s leadership elections last winter: he was not perceived as a new Tony Blair or a Jeremy Corbyn sequel.
Keir Starmer Men He has undeniably cleaned up with brutal efficiency in the match. Just a week after becoming party leader, the former left phalanx had lost almost all its influence. And now Keir Starmer has ruled out Jeremy Corbyn himself.
Keir Starmer has a personal commitment to anti-Semitism (his wife is Jewish) and the former prosecutor’s attitude that the right thing should be the right thing. Breaking the rules is a violation of the rules and should not be explained as “political conspiracies,” as Jeremy Corbyn suggested. But above all, Keir Starmer, of course, has the ambition that Labor can politically leave behind all the problems of anti-Semitism.
And he’s obviously willing to be ruthless to achieve it.
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