Don t mention Brexit! Keir Starmer issues bold order to MPs in ploy to recapture Red Wall Bill McLoughlin
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In a break from party unity, one senior backbench MP has admitted the Labour leader wants to move on from Brexit. The leader has instructed a virtual radio silence over the issue amid fears it may damage him going forward. After losing Labour strongholds in the 2019 election, it is thought Sir Keir is attempting to win back crucial Red Wall seats which voted for Brexit in 2016.
One senior backbench MP told The Guardian: The order that is coming out is: Don t mention the war.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s brother has denied accusations of antisemitism after he was dramatically arrested for sending out leaflets comparing the Covid-19 vaccine efforts to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
The coronavirus conspiracy theorist, 73, has been credited with the concept of the pamphlet which MPs and campaigners condemned as ‘beyond disgusting’ and ‘vile and dangerous’.
But Piers Corbyn, the former Labour leader’s older brother, defended himself by claiming that he was married to a Jew and had employed Jewish people, one of whom was ‘a superb worker’.
He told the Daily Mail that his arrest was ‘an absurd attack on rights of free expression.