Sunday shows round-up: Tom Watson condemns anti-Semitic mural and apologises for Corbyn

Tom Watson – ‘I am very, very sorry’ about anti-Semitic mural

Labour’s Deputy Leader Tom Watson has told Andrew Marr that he is ‘very, very sorry’ about his leader’s defence of a mural apparently depicting wealthy Jewish financiers playing Monopoly on the backs of enslaved members of the working class. In 2012, Jeremy Corbyn expressed disappointment that the mural, titled ‘Freedom of Humanity’, was to be removed by the authorities, comparing it to the destruction of work made by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Corbyn has since said that ‘I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on, the contents of which are deeply disturbing and anti-Semitic’. Marr queried Watson as to why Corbyn has backed the mural in the first place:

AM: You only need to glance at that to see what it’s about. It’s Third Reich propaganda. Anti-Semitism.

TW: That is why Jeremy has expressed deep regret and apologised for that, and has actually said that it is right that the mural was taken down.