Jewish community say Starmer still has questions to answer on his previous support for Corbyn
, would not be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate in the next election.will not stand as a Labour candidate at the next general election,” the Labour leader said.she thought it was “absolutely right” Mr Corbyn was excluded from standing, but that some people had “legitimate questions” over Sir Keir’s time as a frontbencher in his predecessor’s shadow Cabinet.
“Of course people will have legitimate questions about what he did when he was in shadow Cabinet under Jeremy Corbyn, I don’t think it’s wrong to ask those questions.” However, Ms Mendoza emphasised that Sir Keir had done an “awful” lot of work in addressing problems around antisemitism, and that many Jews were happy to rejoin his party after support amongst the community plummeted during Mr Corbyn’s leadership.
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