Newspaper scathing of Corbyn interview

JEREMY Corbyn sparked new fury last night after he described protesters who tried to disrupt this week’s rally against anti-Semitism as ‘good people’.

The Labour leader told Jewish News, which branded his answers ‘Not Good Enough’, that Ken Livingstone, who has still not been expelled two years after claiming Adolf Hitler was a Zionist, had a ‘right to be heard’.

He said the question of whether a Labour MP targeted by anti-Semites for attending Monday’s rally should be deselected was ultimately one for the local party.

At Monday’s rally in Westminster, a fringe group, Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), organised a counter-demonstration at which they accused the Board of British Jews of ‘playing politics’. Mr Corbyn told Jewish News: ‘I’m not a member, but they’re good people, they are in the party because they love and believe in it.’

The Labour leader was then asked about calls for MP David Lammy to be deselected in Tottenham because he attended the rally against anti-Semitism, he said: ‘It’s up to the local party, but not for that, no. Obviously, the local parties must decide what they want to do in the future.’

On Mr Livingstone, he replied: ‘That now has to be subject to a probe. Ken will have a right to be heard.’

Gideon Falter, chairman of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, said: ‘Mr Corbyn’s praise for JVL demonstrates that after three years he still just does not get it.’