Controversy Of The Week: Labour's Anti-Semitism

“Labour has developed a unique skill under Jeremy Corbyn,” said Stephen Pollard in The Daily Telegraph.

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“No matter how bad the situation it finds itself in, somehow it contrives to find a way to make things unimaginably worse.” The suspension of Ken Livingstone last week was a “case in point”. The former London mayor had been found guilty of bringing the party into disrepute, for his assertion that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism “before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews”. These comments, a disciplinary panel concluded, were “prejudicial”, and “grossly detrimental”. The obvious next step, for a party which purports to have “zero tolerance” of anti-Semitism, would have been to expel him. Instead, the panel chose to do... nothing. Livingstone, 71, remains a member. All his two-year suspension means is that he cannot run for office, something he never planned to do. Since then, 107 Labour MPs have signed a statement condemning the failu