Since Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader, he has been criticised for failing to take strong positions on a variety of topics. However, the issue where Starmer tends to talk the toughest is anti-Semitism. The Labour leader has promised to root out anti-Semites from the party and when the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found that Labour was ‘responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination’, Starmer described it as a ‘day of shame’. He went on to suspend Jeremy Corbyn over his response to the report and in the process sparked a civil war.
Seventy per cent said that Labour doesn’t have an anti-Semitism problem
However, new polling for the Jewish Chronicle suggests that Starmer could have a tougher job on his hands than he and his team first thought. A YouGov poll of more than 1,000 Labour members points to trouble ahead for the Labour leader, one year on from Starmer’s promise to purge the ‘poison’ of anti-Semitism from the party.
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