Antisemitism an 'urgent issue for the whole UK'

DAME Penny Mordaunt has said she was “stunned into silence” as she undertook a Government-backed review into antisemitism.

- VICTORIA JONES

The former Conservative minister joined Lord John Mann, the Government's antisemitism adviser, in chairing an independent commission on antisemitism on behalf of the Board of Deputies, Britain's largest Jewish community organisation. Writing in the Telegraph newspaper, the pair described themselves as “hard-nosed politicians” who are “used to dealing with the extremes of human emotions and catastrophe”. But they added: “Even with decades of these experiences, we were still stunned into silence by the evidence that we received as independent chairs of the Board of Deputies Commission on Antisemitism, particularly from young people in the Jewish community.”