Jewish organisations have expressed outrage that a complaint made to the Conservative Party over the language used by a “repeat offender” former minister has been dismissed.
Sir Alan Duncan, who served as foreign minister under Theresa May, had been the subject of an official complaint to the party after he said that Robert Jenrick, whose wife is Jewish and was born in Israel, took his “script” from “the Israelis”.
A letter by the Conservative Party seen by the JC said that it did “not consider the evidence and allegations presented to meet the threshold to investigate as the statements made by Sir Alan Duncan do not reach the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism”.
Reacting to the dismissal of the complaint, Antisemitism Policy Trust CEO Danny Stone told the JC: “Duncan is a repeat offender, his behaviour is embarrassing, and the party should want nothing to do with him.”
