Labour is committed to ensuring "the rift between the Labour Party and the UK’s Jewish community is mended", Shadow Communities Secretary Steve Reed has said.
In an online meeting with the Board of Deputies and the Community Security Trust, he said he wanted to meet "very early in my tenure to assure them that I will do everything I can to ensure that the Jewish community feels safe and secure".
He said after the meeting: "I repeated Keir Starmer’s apology to the Jewish community for Labour’s failure to tackle antisemitism and my determination to see swift action against those responsible for it in our party.
"I gave my assurance that I will do whatever I can to combat those who seek to promote or excuse antisemitism anywhere in our society and will be writing to all Labour’s local government leaders to ask those who have not yet done so to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism in full and with all its examples including reminding them not to support actions that seek to delegitimise the State of Israel.
