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Lord Falconer won't solve Labour's antisemitism crisis 'because the problem is at the top, in their political ideology'

MP Joan Ryan told JW3 audience: 'Either they would have to go and they are not going to go, or they would have to change, and they are not going to'

March 6, 2019 12:53
Left to right: Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog, MP Joan Ryan and Sir Mick Davis at JW3 March 5, 2019
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Labour’s plan for Lord Falconer to oversee antisemitism complaints would not resolve the problem because “the problem is at the top, in their political ideology”, one of the MPs who recently quit the party said.

Joan Ryan, chair of Labour Friends of Israel and now part of the parliamentary Independent Group, said on Tuesday the former Justice Secretary was a good man who would “do his best”.

But she added: “With all the goodwill in the world Charlie will bring to this, I don’t think Charlie can resolve it because the problem is at the top - in their thinking, in the political ideology…

“I don’t think the problem can be solved because either they would have to go and they are not going to go, or they would have to change, and they are not going to.”