BOTH Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt branded Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite last night as the pair competed over their anti-Labour rhetoric.
Mr Corbyn’s entire Labour leadership has been rocked by claims of anti-Semitism and hit a new low last week with a damning Panoroma documentary that found his top aides had interfered to protect hard-left members accused of racism.
Corbyn ‘may be’ an anti-Semitite Jeremy Hunt said tonight
Asked in tonight’s Sun leadership debate if he believed Mr Corbyn was personally anti-Semitic, Mr Hunt won applause as he replied: “Unfortunately, he may be.”
Answering the same question, Mr Johnson said: “I think by condoning anti-Semitism in the way he does, I am afraid he is effectively culpable of that vice.”
It comes after two whistleblowers featured in the BBC Panorama investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party have said they now plan to sue the party.
Former officials Sam Matthews and Louise Withers Green said they believed they had been defamed by Labour in its response to their allegations.
The programme – shown on Wednesday – included claims that senior figures including Mr Corbyn’s communications chief Seumas Milne and general secretary Jennie Formby had interfered in anti-Semitism investigations.
In its response, Labour said the allegations came from “disaffected former officials” opposed to Mr Corbyn’s leadership who had “personal and political axes to grind” casting doubt on their “credibility” as sources.
Labour has repeatedly insisted that Mr Corbyn is taking anti-Semitism seriously in the party – and he has always stood against racism in his time as a politician.
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