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
This afternoon, Keir Starmer declared that the UK now formally recognises a Palestinian state. In a six-minute video, posted on X, the Prime Minister took the step that many of his colleagues have wanted him to do for months. ‘We are acting to keep alive the possibility of peace and a two-state solution’, said Starmer.
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