Welcome to FTE Politics, the Financial Times' weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster. I'm Sebastian Payne and in this episode

we'll be discussing Jeremy Corbyn's latest travails over anti-Semitism and a row brewing over trees in Sheffield.

I'm delighted to be joined by Jim Picard, our chief political correspondent,

editorial director Robert Shrimsney, deputy comment editor Miranda Green,

plus BBC reporter, Dina Sophos.

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This has to have been one of Jeremy Corbyn's most troublesome weeks as Labour leader.

Concerns that anti-Semitism is rife within his party grew as it transpired that Mr.

Corbyn had defended an offensive mural in London that featured several Jewish

tropes.

The Jewish community held a protest in Parliament Square where many Labour and Conservative MPs

turned out to protest at how he was handling the situation. The Labour leader has since

promised to take a zero tolerance approach to anti-Semitism, but have his actions spoken to his words.

Jim Picard, let's begin with this. You know, it's cast a shadow across Mr. Corbin's leadership

for the past two years that anti-Semitism keeps coming back again

and again and is causing very bad headlines and questions over the moral fibre of Mr Corbyn and

his leadership. So what's going on?

So it's all very complicated but I think the things that people need to know

that firstly this has been a recurring theme for a couple of years.

You had the inquiry led by Shami Chacabati a couple of years ago which some had the inquiry led by Shami Chakrabarty a couple of years ago,

which some saw as a whitewash. You had Ken Livingston, a former Mayor of London

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