Labour sinks deeper into anti-Semitic mire

uNtIl now, only one political party has suffered the ignominy of being investigated for racism by the Equality and human Rights Commission.

that badge of shame belonged to the BNP, a violent far-Right mob that banned non-whites while stirring up racial hatred.

to that tawdry roll of dishonour we now add Jeremy Corbyn’s labour Party.

the watchdog – established, remember, by a labour government – suspects Britain’s main opposition is so riddled with the cancer of anti-Semitism it is breaking the law.

the EhRC has begun a devastating formal inquiry into whether labour discriminated illegally against Jewish people.

how degrading a party with a proud history of fighting bigotry should sink so low.

lamenting the dark day, Jewish exminister Dame Margaret hodge said Mr Corbyn should ‘hang his head in shame’.

Since the Marxist seized power, labour has mutated from a broad church to a toxic party that gives succour to hard-left crackpots who hurl execrable anti-Semitic bile.

Does he censure this pernicious culture? Not a chance. At best he excuses it, at worst connives in it. For Mr Corbyn has a tendency to clasp Jew-haters to his chest.

last year, the Mail uncovered photographs of him clutching a wreath to commemorate the ringleaders of the Black September massacre at the 1972 Munich olympics.

he also supported a disgusting mural in east london caricaturing Jewish bankers, and breaks bread with his ‘friends’ in hamas and hezbollah.

his left-wing bully-boys denounce this as fake news. Mr Corbyn’s response to reporters asking about the EhRC inquiry yesterday was emblematic: turn tail and ignore.

how hypocritical he should snub next week’s State Banquet for Donald trump, piously claiming the uS President is ‘racist’.

once again, this proves he is incontrovertibly unfit to govern this country.

Yet the tories are ill-prepared to hold his abject failure to drain the anti-Semitic swamp to account, for they are distracted by a torturous leadership contest.

So far, ten contenders stand in an overcrowded field – with others queuing at the gate. Some are, frankly, political pygmies. Do they not realise less is often more?

unless theresa May’s successor is chosen quickly, there is a danger the party’s future message will be diluted.

once the winner is anointed, three goals are imperative. Deliver Brexit. unite the country. And beat Mr Corbyn.

Whoever wins the democratic mandate must receive the loyalty of the party – whatever their vision. only that way can the tories prevent the uK becoming a grim experiment for Marxist anti-Semites – with all the horrors that would entail.