Alastair Campbell's brutal claim about Jeremy Corbyn's 'nasty' Labour Party exposed
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, Labour's former spin doctor, branded the party under Jeremy Corbyn as "nasty" in a brutal claim during a 2018 interview.
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Rebecca Long-Bailey, the Labour Party’s shadow education secretary, was sacked a few days ago after she shared an article that many claimed to contain an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. Ms Long-Bailey retweeted the Independent article; an interview with Labour supporter and actor Maxine Peake. She said she had not meant to endorse all parts of the article.
Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, however, said his “first priority” was tackling anti-semitism.
He said: "The sharing of that article was wrong… because the article contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and I have therefore stood Rebecca Long-Bailey down from the shadow cabinet.
"I've made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism and rebuilding trust with the Jewish community is a number one priority for me."
In the article, Ms Peake discussed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
She said: "The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd's neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services."
The article later went on to quote the Israeli police denying Ms Peake's claim saying: "There is no tactic or protocol that calls to put pressure on the neck or airway."
Ms Long-Bailey was beaten to the leadership role by Sir Keir in April earlier this year.
She was a key part of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour that saw the party return to its socialist roots.
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Mr Corbyn’s time as leader was marred by claims and allegations of anti-semitism within the far-left branch of his party.
Party members and officials were often found to have shared conspiracy theories placing Jewish people at the centre of a “new world order”.
He, as a result, faced fierce criticism.
One such critic was Labour’s former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell.
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Several times did Mr Campbell - who is regarded as having helped Tony Blair push the Iraq war onto the UK’s agenda in 2003 - publicly condemn Mr Corbyn and his party for not being up to the job of “winning”.
In 2018, Mr Campbell sat down with Ed Miliband, who at the time had taken a back seat in politics.
Mr Miliband is now the shadow business secretary.
During the interview, Mr Campbell and Mr Miliband discussed a range of things including the “sectarianism” that appeared to be manifesting itself in the Labour Party.
While Mr Miliband attempted to show how Labour had in fact become a party that sprawled the political spectrum, Mr Campbell vehemently disagreed.
He went as far as to claim that the party had become “nasty” at the time.
He said: “Yes but what do you think about this point about sectarianism?
“There’s nastiness coming back in the Labour Party which they like to say is down to people like me, which it’s not.
“But, I think actually it’s this hard-left quality that’s coming back in.”
Mr Corbyn realigned the Labour Party with its original socialist roots.
The party had not taken such a stance since before the days of Tony Blair.
Mr Blair was the leader of the party from 1997 to 2007.
The ten-year stint created the “New Labour” movement in which Mr Campbell was integral in orchestrating.