Why this week is crunch time for the Labour anti-semitism scandal

Four factors are bringing the debate to a head – but there is precious little sign that the forces of decency will defeat their Corbynite opponents.

WATCH: “It is time to say that this wrong must be righted.” Brown’s passionate intervention on Labour anti-semitism.

The former Prime Minister calls on the Party to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition.

WATCH: Sacks – Corbyn is an existential threat and Jews are pondering leaving Britain

The former Chief Rabbi says that he “believed it could not happen here and still believe that it must not happen here”.

Field resigns the Labour whip over anti-Semitism – full statement

“The leadership is doing nothing substantive to address this erosion of our core values. It saddens me to say that we are increasingly seen as a racist party.”

Robert Halfon: I agree with Corbyn about democratising the BBC (or, rather, he agrees with me)

Plus: Why call McCain a maverick?; the Labour MPs who deserve an award for courage; and who is the right’s Artist Taxi Driver?

Syed Kamall: The electoral disaster that will engulf our Party if we don’t boost our ethnic minority support

Once a seat reaches 30 per cent BME population, it goes Labour. In 2010, this applied to 75 seats. By 2022, it could apply to around 120 seats.

How Chequers seems to have bled the Conservative vote

The Tories have been ahead only once since the summit, though the shift away from them has flattened out.

Robert Halfon: There’s a sense in the air that party splits are coming. But here’s a surprise – they won’t be over Europe

Plus: ditching Corbyn – it’s not that easy for Britain’s Jews. And: thanks to Tracey Crouch and Danny Kruger, the Big Society is back.

WATCH: “That’s his own account…is he smearing himself?” – Wallace on Corbyn honouring terrorists

Our Executive Editor dissects Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen’s attempt to dismiss facts about the Labour leader as “hearsay”.

Drawing a veil over the incident

All concerned want to save face over the Johnson burqa row – May, Lewis and the man himself. Here’s a rough and ready way to correct its mishandling.

If May had honoured this Israeli terrorist’s grave…

There is a solid reason why headlines about Labour prejudice have run for months and those about a claimed Tory equivalent for only a week.

Where bungling the burka row has got the Conservative Party. Damned if it investigates Johnson. And damned if it doesn’t.

Any proceedings against him under the Party’s Code of Conduct threaten a cats-cradle of conflicts of interest and breaches of natural justice.

Joshua McMullan: To effectively fight antisemitism, the Conservative Party must address its own troubled history on race relations

The sooner we deal with our Party’s past, however difficult, the easier it will be to drive out the hatred emerging on the Left today.

Iain Dale: Anti-semitism – and how Corbyn is vanishing into the deep pit he has dug for himself

Plus: Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe. Tommy Robinson – and how Batten is wrecking UKIP. Can Farage save it?

Momentum has lost control of the monster it created – only Corbyn has the power to purge his movement of anti-semitism

Momentum’s leaders taught supporters to reject any criticism, and encouraged a siege mentality. Now they are under attack by their own grassroots.