BREAKING: Keir Starmer sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey.

He said zero tolerance for anti-Semitism. He meant it.
This was the offending paragraph in Maxine Peak article: “Systemic racism is a global issue. The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.”

https://twitter.com/rlong_bailey/status/1276112455891070978?s=21 https://twitter.com/rlong_bailey/status/1276112455891070978
Keir Starmer has shown he knows how to do politics too.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson stands by Robert Jenrick and Dominic Cummings and looks weak in comparison.

https://twitter.com/guardianheather/status/1276123177291329536?s=21 https://twitter.com/guardianheather/status/1276123177291329536
Fair to say, the decision has gone down badly on the Labour left. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-rebecca-long-bailey-sacked-22252046
Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked for sharing 'anti-Semitic conspiracy theory'

The Shadow Education Secretary - who was Sir Keir's rival for the Labour leadership - was asked to step down from the Shadow Cabinet

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-rebecca-long-bailey-sacked-22252046
Turns out that Keir Starmer didn’t speak to Becky Long-Bailey before sacking her. Her explanation here 👇🏼

https://twitter.com/rlong_bailey/status/1276161748664496128?s=21 https://twitter.com/rlong_bailey/status/1276161748664496128
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