I hope that, one day, it is no longer just an autonomous region in Iraq, but gets the independence it deserves.
We reproduce the Labour MP’s full speech from yesterday’s Commons debate on the issue, in which she called on her party to expel Livingstone.
Other issues to be addressed include religious slaughter, the fur trade, cruelty, puppy mills, factory farming, testing and increasing threats to our wildlife.
The Labour leader could have spent his career choosing to challenge anti-semitism among his allies. Instead, he has got used to overlooking it.
“The story of Passover teaches us that though wrong may triumph for a time, the arc of history always bends to the righteous.”
The revelation that [he] personally defended an antisemitic mural has compounded matters. It’s time we say, ‘Enough is enough!’
Prejudice against Israelis is often a gateway to prejudice against Jews in general, as seen in the spike of anti-Semitic incidents after the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict.
The Labour leader is presiding over a culture which empowers and emboldens racists within his party and without.
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She voted for Davis in 2005, and her hero is Airey Neave: “The escape from Colditz is I think probably the coolest thing any British politician has ever done.”
A party capable of indulging such poisonous conduct is capable of much else besides – and they could yet enter government.