UK Labour Party Under Pressure to Drop Candidate Over Antisemitic Remarks
- Row risks undermining Starmer’s claim to have rebuilt party
- Deadline to change candidate for Rochdale election has passed
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UK opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces pressure from political opponents to drop his candidate for this month’s parliamentary election in northern England after they were recorded sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory about the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
Azhar Ali, Labour’s candidate for the by-election in Rochdale on Feb. 29, said shortly after the attack that Israel had “allowed” it to “get the green light to do whatever they bloody want,” the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported on its front page, citing a recording it had obtained.