Labour has endured a torrid day of media coverage after Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi, took the unprecedented step of questioning Jeremy Corbyn’s fitness for office. This evening, Andrew Neil, whose BBC interview with the Labour leader has many candidates privately despairing, ensured it will face another.
Asked four times whether he would apologise for Labour’s handling of accusations of anti-Semitism, Corbyn declined to take the opportunity to say sorry. He instead said Mirvis was wrong to accuse him of peddling a “mendacious fiction” in claiming Labour was doing its utmost to tackle anti-Semitism in its ranks, and denied the problem had worsened under his leadership.
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