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Chief Rabbi says Jeremy Corbyn is not fit for high office in wake of Labour anti-Semitism




Jeremy Corbyn is “unfit for high office”, the Chief Rabbi has said, as he
accused him of allowing the “poison” of anti-Semitism to “take root in the
Labour Party”.


In an unprecedented intervention in the general election, Ephraim Mirvis
attacked Mr Corbyn’s “utterly inadequate” response to Jewish MPs being
“hounded out” of the party, saying he was “complicit in prejudice”.

No previous Chief Rabbi has ever publicly taken sides in an election campaign,
but Rabbi Mirvis said Mr Corbyn’s behaviour had left him no choice as he fears
for “the moral compass of our country” if he were to become prime minister.

It came as a senior adviser to Labour suggested Mr Corbyn’s future could be
up for discussion as the price of a power-sharing deal with the SNP or Liberal
Democrats.

Lord Kerslake, a long-standing ally of John McDonnell, said replacing Mr Corbyn
as Labour leader would “form part of the conversation” of any confidence and
supply talks in the event of a hung parliament.


Labour have failed to close the gap on the Tories in opinion polls, and Mr
Corbyn’s disastrous personal ratings suggest he is one of the biggest reasons
for that. Sources close to Mr Corbyn were forced to issue a stern rebuke of
cross bencher Lord Kerslake, insisting a change of party leadership was “not
on the table”.

Referring to Labour, he writes: “The party leadership have never understood
that their failure is not just one of procedure, which can be remedied with
additional staff or new processes.

“It is a failure to see this as a human problem rather than a political one. It is
a failure of culture.

“It is a failure of leadership. A new poison – sanctioned from the very top –
has taken root in the Labour Party.”

He ends his article by saying: “It is not my place to tell any person how they
should vote…I regret being in this situation at all. I simply pose the following
question: What will the result of this election say about the moral compass of
our country?

“When Dec 12 arrives, I ask every person to vote with their conscience.”



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...e-wake-labour/

Unprecedented, will this be the final nail in the coffin for the labour campaign?