Jeremy Corbyn, who described Hamas as “friends”, with Azhar Ali, who was suspended as Labour’s Rochdale candidate TWITTEREarly on Monday evening I was having a conversation with a friend and he asked me what I thought I would write about this week in my column. I am going to write about Labour and Rochdale, I replied, and I’m going to tell Sir Keir Starmer that he should drop his candidate after his conspiracist comments about Israel. SponsoredMy friend is Jewish and Labour and politically very sophisticated. So I did exactly that when he answered: “Danny, it’s not as simple as that.”If Labour doesn’t have a candidate, my friend said, then it’s very possible that George Galloway will win the seat. By “we” I think he meant Jews, but

Source: The Times February 13, 2024 15:22 UTC