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Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

How did Corbyn respond after Chief Rabbi attacked Labour over anti-Semitism?

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

Politics, Government, News

4.3179 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Labour launched its race and faith manifesto today - but the headlines have been dominated by an unprecedented intervention in an election campaign by the Chief Rabbi of Britain. Ephraim Mirvis criticised Labour's handling of anti-Semitism, saying the party was "incompatible" with British values and the "soul of the nation" was at stake in this election. Jeremy Corbyn says anti-Semitism is "vile and wrong" and has "no place whatsoever" in the Labour Party. We get Robert's take on the issue which has dogged Labour for the last few years and what impact it could have on the election. What's gone wrong with the Liberal Democrats' campaign? Jo Swinson started the campaign pitching herself as a serious contender for Number 10, but the polls have not been moving in the right direction for her party. We catch up with our correspondent Rachel Younger who's following the Lib Dem campaign for us and has been speaking to their leader today. One politician not hitting the campaign trail this election is Andy Burnham. The former health minister was Labour MP for 16 years and is now Mayor of Greater Manchester. He tells us why he thinks this election is being fought on a more local basis than past ones, reveals how he'd vote in a second referendum should Labour get into power - and shares a memory from campaigning on the doorstep that'd he rather forget. And don't forget to register to vote! The deadline is 11.59pm TONIGHT. You can do it at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. We’ll bring you a new episode of Calling Peston every weekday around 5pm throughout the election campaign. Don’t forget to subscribe - and if you like what you hear, do rate us and leave a review. Get in touch with the Calling Peston team - contact @DanielHewittITV, @ShehabKhan and @Peston. For the latest election news, go to itv.com/news and follow @ITVNewsPolitics on Twitter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to what source is close to calling Peston are calling episode 15 of this daily election podcast.

0:10.3

I'm Daniel Hewitt. He is Shihab Khan and that, hello, is the undeniable tone of Robert Peston,

0:17.6

who will be calling for his take on the day's big stories.

0:20.7

We'll also today be

0:21.8

speaking to the Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Health Secretary Andy Burnham and what it's

0:26.2

like watching rather than fighting a general election, and we'll be asking the question,

0:30.4

what's going on with the Liberal Democrats, with our Lib Dem correspondent Rachel Younger.

0:35.2

But first, here's she-hab with a quick run through what's been

0:37.7

happening on Tuesday the 26th of November.

0:40.2

The big story of the day is that the chief rabbi of Great Britain, Ephraim Mersey, has launched

0:45.0

a scathing attack on Labour's record on anti-Semitism. In an unprecedented intervention,

0:50.9

he accused the Labour leadership of allowing a poison to take over the party.

0:55.2

Labour today in North London published this Race and Equality's manifesto, and Jeremy Corbyn

0:59.7

said that anti-Semitism has no place in society.

1:03.4

The Muslim Council of Britain criticised the Conservative Party over Islamophobia today.

1:07.8

I spoke to Michael Gove this morning, who told me the party would launch an independent inquiry into Islamophobia by the end of the year.

1:14.9

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has been in Fife launching the party's Scottish manifesto, and Joe Swinson has been in Cornwall visiting a surfing company.

1:23.3

Thanks, Shihab. Look at you name dropping. I spoke to Michael Gove.

1:27.0

Yeah, I thought I'd get that one in there.

1:28.1

Yeah. You interviewed him, right?

1:29.4

I did. Yeah. You can watch a clip of the interview on my Twitter.

1:32.6

Fantastic. Well, we're speaking to Robert about those big stories today. As I said, as well,

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