Any other leader would resign, Javid tells Corbyn

THE Home Secretary has called for Jeremy Corbyn to resign as the row over anti-semitism in the Labour Party rumbles on.

Sajid Javid spoke out after pictures emerged in the press of Mr Corbyn, during a 2014 trip to Tunis, holding a wreath near the graves of Palestinians responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Labour said Mr Corbyn had already made it clear he was paying his respects to the victims of a 1985 Israeli airstrike on Palestinian Liberation Organisation offices in Tunis.

However, the Daily Mail said the picture was taken in front of a plaque honouring the founder of the Black September organisation that carried out the Munich atrocity.

Mr Javid said yesterday: “If this was the leader of any other major political party, he or she would be gone by now.”

Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: “If true, reports of Jeremy Corbyn honouring terrorists... at a memorial service are chillingly revealing. It represents yet another moral failure from [him].”