- Mr Ali was seen with councillors at Lancashire County Council’s finances assembly
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Keir Starmer was condemned as ‘too weak’ to behave over anti-Semitism after dumped Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali was pictured lunching with the Labour group at a council assembly yesterday.
Mr Ali, suspended from the get together for claiming Israel had ‘allowed’ the October 7 Hamas assault, was seen with Labour councillors at Lancashire County Council’s finances assembly.
He’ll nonetheless seem because the Labour candidate on the poll later this month, regardless of the get together withdrawing their help.
Referring to the photograph of Mr Ali sitting subsequent to Lorraine Beavers, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, Tory MP Sarah Dines mentioned: ‘Usual Labour.’
Sir Keir Starmer has been branded as ‘too weak’ on anti-Semitism after dumped Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali was pictured with Labour councillors
![Mr Ali was seen with Labour councillors at Lancashire County Council’s budget meeting](https://i0.wp.com/i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/23/23/81654977-13119967-image-a-54_1708732487948.jpg?resize=634%2C951&ssl=1)
Mr Ali was seen with Labour councillors at Lancashire County Council’s finances assembly
Get together chairman Richard Holden added: ‘Sir Keir’s too weak to alter the Labour Get together.’
Sir Keir has already been pressured to deal with considerations he was not taking decisive motion over Mr Ali’s conduct after The Mail on Sunday printed the feedback he made on Israel.
Labour additionally withdrew its backing for former MP and candidate for Hyndburn Graham Jones after he was reported to have mentioned ‘f****** Israel’ on the identical assembly the place Mr Ali made his controversial feedback.
A YouGov ballot discovered that simply 3 per cent of voters felt that Sir Keir had rooted out anti-Semitism inside his get together.
It comes as senior Tories additionally warned that the Labour chief would take the nation again to ‘sq. one’ on Brexit.
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Conservative MP Sarah Dines
Sir Keir, who beforehand backed a second Brexit referendum, has already publicly promised to hunt a rewrite of the UK’s commerce deal if he turns into prime minister.
And though he has dominated out taking Britain again into the EU’s single market or customs union if he wins energy, ministers claimed Sir Keir might return on that place after a normal election.
Enterprise and Commerce Secretary Kemi Badenoch wrote: ‘Greg is correct. Parliament spent three years deciding the fitting Brexit technique.
‘There have been challenges, however the technique is delivering dividends as my division reported earlier this month.
‘A vote for Labour takes us again to sq. one and having arguments about Brexit once more.’