British politics is not merely febrile at the moment; it is so unpredictable that anyone who suggests they know what will happen over the course of just a week is deluded.
So it is entirely possible that the final leader column of 2019 will look back on a year in which Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister.
Our political editor’s review of 2018 brings home just how appalling a year it has been for our community’s relationship with the Labour Party.
We have seen Jeremy Corbyn’s initial attempts to justify his support for a blatantly antisemitic mural; a mass rally in Parliament Square; a meeting with communal leaders in which the Labour leader managed to make things even worse; and his determination not to implement the full IHRA definition of antisemitism.
