Britain’s Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday faced intense pressure over alleged anti-Semitism in his party less than a week before his leadership is tested by local elections. Corbyn announced an independent review into racism after senior party member
The corrosive power of anti-Semitism is something Europe is forgetting at its peril, a Jewish leader has warned, adding that its symptoms are intolerance, prejudice and hatred specifically “aimed at Jews.”
David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, has called anti-Semitism “repulsive” and warned it must be exposed and defeated, amid growing controversy over attacks against Jews from within the UK Labour party. Mr. Miliband, who narrowly lost the Labour leadership contest to his brother
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of failing to take anti-Semitism seriously – but he promised an “immediate” investigation of any allegations. British Board of Deputies president Jonathan Arkush attacked Mr Corbyn’s “deeply disturbing” response to a tweet by
British Prime Minister David Cameron took to the floor of the House of Commons and told opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to address accusations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Mr. Cameron said Labour’s purported anti-Semitism was a signal of “even worse things happening
British soldiers should give up bombing and drink “cups of tea” with Islamic Sate (IS) terrorists because it worked “when the EDL were going round picketing outside mosques”, a key ally of the Labour party leader has said. Christine Shawcroft,
Dozens of Muslim women have spoken out against the systematic use of death threats and sexual violence by Muslim men within Britain’s Labour Party. They accuse the party of doing little to address the problem. One woman alleged that Labour councillors
The opposition Labour Party will campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union in an upcoming referendum, its leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Saturday night, after a dissenter from his party had suggested Corbyn might still join the “out”
Calls have been made for Labour MP Jess Phillips to step down after she likened the mass sex attacks which took place in Cologne on New Year’s Eve to an average weekend night in central Birmingham. In fact, Police statistics
The leader of the opposition Labour Party says a reshuffle of his top team has brought the unity needed to “win elections and change our country for the better” – but he faces a struggle to convince his own lawmakers.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday sacked his Europe policy chief for disloyalty and gave the defence post on his top team to a lawmaker who shares his view that the country’s nuclear deterrent should not be renewed. After days
The student who received lewd texts from Labour MP Simon Danczuk was a 17-year-old professional dominatrix running a fetish website when the exchange took place. One of the services provided by Sophena Houlihan, now 18, has been revealed as the offer sell her toenail clippings
The British shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has called for Palestinian leaders to be “more vocal in condemning violence”. Mr Benn has just returned from a three-day tour of Israel and the West Bank during which he met officials from the United Nations’
