Tom Watson said that Frank Field’s resignation from the Labour whip was a ‘major wake up call’ for the party over anti-Semitism. But it seems some Labour MPs aren’t seeing things quite that way. On Newsnight last night, Chris Williamson said that there is ‘intolerance’ within the party – but only among his fellow MPs:
‘The only intolerance that I have seen in the Labour party has been in the parliamentary party that have not been prepared to honour the democratic decisions of Labour party members.’
"The only intolerance that I have seen in the Labour party has been in the parliamentary party and they are less than 0.4% of our membership," says Labour MP Chris Williamson on Frank Field's resignation@DerbyChrisW | @maitlis | #newsnightpic.twitter.com/cRCvGs4w9e
It was bound to happen. Leaving aside, for the moment, the burning question of whether the US strikes on Iran will have set back Tehran’s nuclear programme by weeks, months or years, this moment feels in many ways like an apotheosis of sorts. The Omega (or perhaps Alpha depending on your sense of ontology) of US attempts at talking
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