Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt has been accused of “implying Corbyn is the next Hitler” after linking a visit to Auschwitz to fears about rising antisemitism under the Labour leader.
The foreign secretary told the Jewish News how, when he visited the notorious Nazi death camp, he had “rather complacently said to myself ‘thank goodness we don’t have to worry about that kind of thing happening in the UK’.
“Now I find myself faced with the leader of the Labour Party who has opened the door to antisemitism in a way that is truly frightening.”
Momentum, the pro-Corbyn campaign group within Labour, called the former health secretary’s comments “outrageous” and shared a petition calling on Mr Hunt to “apologise for linking Jeremy Corbyn to the Holocaust.”
