Labour’s anti-Semitism row reached boiling point this week thanks to a leaked recording from a meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee. In it, Corbyn ally Peter Willsman suggests that Jewish ‘Trump fanatics’ are behind ‘duff’ accusations of Labour anti-Semitism and warned that ‘they can falsify social media very easily’. This comes at a particularly bad time for Jeremy Corbyn as Willsman is currently standing for re-election on to the NEC and is one of nine Momentum-backed candidates, known as the #JC9 (see Mr Steerpike’s guide to the candidates here).
Moderate Labour MPs – including deputy leader Tom Watson – have been quick to condemn the comments along with a number of pro-Corbyn pundits who have called on Willsman to resign. However, not everyone is so bothered. Corbynista MP Chris Williamson took to social media to proclaim that he had just voted for the #JC9, with Willsman’s name top of his ballot paper.
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