Like Diane Abbott's, Rebecca Long-Bailey's constituency has a large Jewish population. As does that of Ian Mearns, who chairs the Socialist Campaign Group. The wrong sort of Jews, I suppose.
How much "damage" did "anti-Semitism" do to Jeremy Corbyn? Britain's extremely tiny Jewish population overwhelmingly voted Conservative before Corbyn, and it overwhelmingly voted Conservative under Corbyn.
How much "damage" did "anti-Semitism" do to Jeremy Corbyn? Britain's extremely tiny Jewish population overwhelmingly voted Conservative before Corbyn, and it overwhelmingly voted Conservative under Corbyn.
Meanwhile, only the Labour Party's own staff stopped it from being the largest party in the hung Parliament of 2017. But in 2019, Labour lost scores of seats that it had held or won as a pro-Brexit and anti-austerity party. It lost them by becoming an anti-Brexit party. Entirely logically, it has now reverted to being a pro-austerity party as well.
Whereas, just as the Conservative Party has never adopted the IHRA Definition, so it is no longer pro-austerity, or at least it is not pro-austerity as a first principle. The pre-Corbyn Labour Party was, and the post-Corbyn Labour Party is again. But the Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.
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