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Coffee House Shots

Can Labour learn from its mistakes?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer has rolled back on his support for the Rochdale by-election candidate, Azhar Ali over further comments made about on Israel-Palestine. John McTernan and James Heale speak to Natasha Feroze about the lessons Labour can learn, and whether antisemitism could topple Starmer. Also on the podcast, Rishi Sunak has been taking advantage of Labour's U-turns, and Michael Gove has laid out his new house building plan. 

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0:00.0

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0:15.2

Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots,

0:21.1

the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

0:23.7

I'm Natasha Rose and I'm joined by John M returnen, former Labour advisor and James Heel.

0:28.6

Well, it's been another difficult day for Kistama, who has had to U-turn on his support for

0:33.9

Azar Ali, the Labour candidate for the Rochdale by-election, since more

0:37.9

information has been revealed about his views on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

0:41.8

James, it's been a big story today so could you talk

0:45.5

us through the logistics for the coming by election? Sure so I'll just start by

0:49.2

saying we got this statement yesterday Monday evening to eight, suggesting that new information had come

0:55.2

to light, which is why a label was pulling its support for Ali, and subsequently, if you

1:00.4

isolated the daily mail from page dropped which had comments suggesting

1:04.6

that this be blamed quote people in the media from certain Jewish quarters end quote

1:10.2

for fueling criticism of a pro-Palestinian labor MP.

1:13.7

And then today this evening we've seen comments made by a current

1:18.1

Labour candidate and former MP Graham Jones which have also been

1:21.5

duly criticized by the Jewish labor movement from around that time

1:25.1

as well and so basically where we're at now is I believe you all his name will appear on the

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