Labour's Jewish problem and Brexit economics
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:42.0 | I'm Sebastian Payne, Digital Comment Editor, |
| 0:44.8 | and this week we'll be discussing Labour's growing problem with anti-Semitism and |
| 0:49.1 | whether there is an economic case for Brexit. To discuss this, I'm delighted to be joined by James Blitz, one of the |
| 0:54.6 | FT's leader writers, Robert Shimsley, a columnist and managing editor of FT.com, Martin |
| 0:59.8 | Wolf, our chief economics commentator, and Andrew Lillenko who's chairman of |
| 1:03.8 | economists for Britain. Thank you all for joining. So on to the main political issue |
| 1:08.9 | this week which has been labor and anti-Semitism. Prominent members of the party have once again been making offensive comments that have hit |
| 1:16.9 | the headlines and caused a headache for Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:19.6 | It's included the MP for Bradford West, Nas Shah, who's had the label Whip Withdrawn, and Ken Livingston |
| 1:25.2 | the former Mayor of London. |
| 1:26.9 | Mr Livingston did a tour of the TV studios on Wednesday, which resulted in a 20 minute discussion |
| 1:31.8 | on whether Hitler was a Zionist |
| 1:33.5 | before he went mad in 1933. Those are Ken Livingston's words not mine. |
| 1:38.4 | So James Blits to begin, we did a leader in the FT this week which looked at this increasing Jewish problem as it might be described in labor and I don't think we could have |
| 1:47.6 | believed when we're discussing this it could have escalated even more and it has where does all this end in your view? |
| 1:54.0 | Well I don't think it ends quickly, is my immediate response. |
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