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The UK Labor Party got rid of their anti-Semitic leader Jeremy Corbyn last year after documents came to light showing Labor’s shocking hatred of Jews. The party elected an equally left-wing leader in Keir Starmer, who promised to win back the working class, which had deserted Labor over their far-left policies.
Judging by the results of a special election in Hartlepool, a working-class northern seat that has voted Labour since it was created in 1974, Starmer has a long way to go.
The conservatives not only won the special election by a wide margin, but Labor lost mayoral elections across England and lost a sizable number of council seats as well. The party is rapidly descending into irrelevancy and Starmer’s response was to fire his deputy Angela Rayner from her frontbench role as chair. Rayner was seen as a bridge between less radical elements and the far left that dominates the party.
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London In the four years that Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour party, the center right worked tirelessly to “take their party back.” After Corbyn was elected by party members with a greater mandate than Tony Blair’s, the parliamentary party lead a coup against him; party members then elected him again with an even greater mandate.