Labour’s stain on Holocaust memorial

A JeWISh survivor of the Nazis said Britain’s new holocaust memorial will be a waste of money unless Labour tackles its anti-Semitism problem.

Agnes Grunwald-Spier, 74, who survived the German occupation as a baby in hungary, grabbed the microphone at the launch of designs for the memorial to attack the party just moments after Shadow Foreign Secretary emily Thornberry spoke.

She said it was ‘pie in the sky’ to believe the memorial will solve anything when antiSemitism was so rife in the main opposition party. Born in Budapest in July 1944, Mrs Grunwald-Spier and her mother were sent to its ghetto before being liberated in January 1945. She told the Daily Mail: ‘I could have been killed when I was a baby. I’m here, it’s my duty to speak out.’

She made her intervention at an exhibition of designs for the holocaust memorial to be built next to Parliament. Following speeches by Communities Secretary James Brokenshire and Miss Thornberry, who gave Labour’s backing to the scheme, Mrs Grunwald-Spier mounted the stage to say: ‘I’m sorry to speak when I haven’t been invited, but as a hungarian survivor I feel I have to say something.

‘It’s pie in the sky to believe that having a memorial centre is going to solve something, when we don’t seem to be able to solve the problem in her Majesty’s Opposition.

‘The members of the Labour Party have to do something because otherwise this memorial is a waste of money.’

She later told the Mail: ‘Corbyn is unfit to be leader of the Opposition. The laws of this country state we have equality of religion. You can’t have one of the major parties behaving like this.’