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The Labour party is completely dysfunctional

What has it come to in the Labour Party when the only way Labour peers feel they can communicate with their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is to pay to take out an advert in the Guardian?

No major party has ever been this dysfunctional.

The advert has been signed by roughly a third of Labour Lords.

It looks like a declaration of semi-independence by them – over Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to deal with the scourge of anti-Semitism in a way they see as effective and appropriate.

The Guardian advert taken out by Labour lords.

‘The point about the Lords is they can’t be deselected,’ said a senior Labour MP.

‘If we didn’t face the threat of deselection, we’d be as bold as the Lords.’

Robert Peston
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Robert Peston is Political Editor of ITV News and host of the weekly political discussion show Peston. His articles originally appeared on his ITV News blog.

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