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3 August 2018updated 06 Aug 2018 9:42am

How did Labour lose the trust of Britain’s Jews?

Arguably, Labour's current malaise began not with Corbyn, but his predecessor, Ed Miliband.

By Patrick Maguire

“How did we get here?” That is the question is on the lips of Labour MPs, councillors, members, and voters this summer. As the party’s anti-Semitism crisis deepens, seemingly inexorably, it is asked with increasing anguish and despair.

How did an officially anti-racist party – a mantle which, despite the ignominy of recent months, its warring factions still cling to – come to be feared and loathed by swathes of Britain’s Jewish community?

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