Yesterday the House of Commons debated antisemitism. Some fine speeches were made, but they cannot mask the irony that this week a number of MPs felt obliged to resign from the Labour Party because of the antisemitism they had been subjected to and witnessed within it.
I am extremely sorry that Luciana Berger and seven other colleagues have had to take the action that they have done. Having spoken at length to some of them in recent weeks, I understand their reasons. While I regret their decisions, I have enormous sympathy for them given the pressures they have been under and the atrocious abuse to which they have been subjected.
Labour’s general secretary has said that dealing with accusations of antisemitism within the party is