Historian Sir Richard Evans has said he has changed his mind about voting Labour in the December general election after reading an open letter by Anthony Julius.
Sir Richard, who wrote a three-volume history of the Third Reich, tweeted to say “As much as Corbyn's lamentable failure to apologise in his tv interview, or the intervention of the Chief Rabbi, this has persuaded me to change my mind and not vote Labour.”
Mr Julius was solicitor to historian Deborah Lipstadt in her successful defence against a libel case brought by Holocaust denier David Irving. Sir Richard was the lead historical witness in the case.
In his open letter, published in the New Statesman, Mr Julius wrote: “The party has become cruel, malicious, stupid and dishonest. The cruelty has been persistent and extreme – death threats, shouted abuse at branch meetings, online trolling. The malice has been patent, incontinent and pervasive.
