How did Corbyn respond after Chief Rabbi attacked Labour over anti-Semitism?
Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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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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