David Lammy turns on Jeremy Corbyn

David Lammy has always had Jeremy Corbyn’s back, but it seems his patience in the Labour leader might be wearing thin. In a story that emerged yesterday, Corbyn was caught on tape claiming that Zionists ‘don’t understand English irony’ despite them having lived in Britain ‘for a very long time’. It appears that Corbyn’s remarks – which are being taken by some as a reference to Jews, rather than merely Zionists – are a step too far, even for Lammy. The Labour MP condemned the comments and called them ’insidious’:

It wasn’t long ago that a leaked list ranking Labour MPs by their loyalty to Corbyn emerged, which placed Lammy in the ‘core group’ of faithful followers alongside Diane Abbott and Clive Lewis.