Would-be British Labour leaders fare poorly on anti-Semitism question

Published February 28, 2020 11:02am ET



Suffering a stunning electoral defeat last December, Britain’s left-wing Labour Party is in the process of electing a new leader. This individual, party members hope, will be able to defeat Boris Johnson’s Conservative government come the next election in five years’ time.

One first order of business? Ensuring that Labour can move on from the stain of recent anti-Semitism scandals — a stain etched into the party’s fabric by its outgoing anti-Semitic leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Except maybe it’s not a first order of business.

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