Labour withdraws support for Rochdale candidate after Israel claims
Labour has withdrawn its support for Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali, following criticism of remarks he made about Israel.
Mr Ali had apologised after he was recorded suggesting in a meeting of the Lancashire Labour Party that Israel had taken the October 7 Hamas assault as a pretext to invade Gaza.
A party spokesperson said: “Following new information about further comments made by Azhar Ali coming to light today, the Labour Party has withdrawn its support for Azhar Ali as our candidate in the Rochdale by-election.
“Keir Starmer has changed Labour so that it is unrecognisable from the party of 2019.
Unrecognisable? Oh I don't know, I don't have any trouble recognising Labour as Jeremy Corbyn's party. Where is he by the way?
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Still suspended from the Labour Party, still sitting as the MP for Islington North. He has a Saturday job now, though - a "side hustle", I believe the modern term is. He pops up in the Palestinian support march every week, and makes a long predictable speech about Gaza and the dreadful Israelis.
He's better on that than formulating actual policies for British people, so don't expect much change there for a while.
Sam - ah yes, Jeremy was always keen on side hustles rather than anything connected with constructive political oversight.
It's a more credible pretext than Weapons Of Mass Destruction.
Doonhamer - it probably is, but his timing is interesting. Looks bungled, but on second thoughts could be calculated. Either way it's an early red flag for Starmer.
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