A vote for Labour is a vote for anti-Semitism

The December election that now looks inevitable will be, as all elections are, a test. A test of a decade-old government that isn’t entirely sure what its achievements in office have been. A test of the public’s continuing appetite for Brexit and its tolerance for parliamentary histrionics. A test, too, of whether the country is ready to return to majoritarian government or whether volatile voter intentions and hung parliaments will be with us a while longer. 

None of these is the most important metric. That dubious honour goes to the anti-Semitism test: will the UK put a party of Jew-haters into power? All of us will have to confront that test and each and every one will be judged on how they measure up. What is at stake is something far bigger than tax or education or even Brexit: the character of the country itself. The Labour Party has embraced ‘the organisation of politics against the Jews’ and the electorate will now decide whether that politics succeeds or is rejected.