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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots

The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Natasha Frose and I'm joined

by Isabel Hartman and James Heel. Well, Labour has been embroiled in another

anti-Semitism row over the weekend to do with the Labour candidate for the by election in

Rochdale. James what happened? So this is the candidacy here Avazar Ali who

was selected only 10 days after the death of Tony Lloyd last month, 27th of January, to represent this seat in Rochdale. And over the weekend, the Melon Sunday has reported that back after a selection at the end of last year in the aftermath of the 7th

of October attacks he suggested that Israel had given the green light for these attacks and

that effectively Israel had okayed an attack on their own citizens obviously it's and that

on their own citizens.

Obviously it's caused a huge outcry right now.

Labor can't replace their candidate because of the deadline such.

The big row at the moment is whether Labour should

effectively disown their candidate, make it clear that he doesn't have their party

backing, that if he was elected he would not sit as a Labour MP and they would fight, they would put someone else in that seat to come the general election.

Or whether what they do now, their current strategy is condemning his comments,

making clear that he got this wrong he himself has apologized but also

continuing to do activities with him campaign with him so the story broke Saturday night

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