Nazi Controversy Engulfs Labour Days Before U.K.-Wide Votes
- Deputy leader Watson pledges to tackle racism in the party
- Newspaper headlines dominated by party's `civil war'
Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech in Brighton, on Sept. 29, 2015.
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A week before nationwide elections in the U.K., opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn found himself fighting off a crisis over anti-Semitism that threatens to engulf his party and thrust it further into the political wilderness.
Lawmakers calling for months for Corbyn to confront racism against Jews exploded after one of his closest allies, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, described Adolf Hitler as a supporter of Zionism in a series of broadcast interviews.