London, the chief rabbi lashes out at Corbyn: "Unable to govern Britain"

LONDON – "Jeremy Corbyn is unfit to govern the UK" for allowing the Labor party to develop anti-Semitism. The clamorous accusation was launched by Ephraim Mirvis, British chief rabbi, or the major national Jewish spiritual authority. In a speech taken this morning on the front page by all the English newspapers, Rabbi Mirvis states in no uncertain terms that "a new poison has taken hold in Labor, approved by the summit", and invites voters to vote "with their own conscience" or against the Labor leadership. It is yet another attack of this kind against Corbyn, but certainly the most serious, also because it occurs three weeks after the vote.The Labor leader has repeatedly said that the party does not tolerate discrimination and racism of any kind, including anti-Semitism, but evidently has not been able or willing to do more. Several Labor deputies and supporters of Jewish origin have left the party in the last year feeling discriminated against. A parliamentary commission has opened an investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labor Party. And the Jewish Chronicle, England's most important Jewish newspaper, recently summarized the situation with a title that evokes Corbyn's slogan, "for the many, not the few" (for many, not for the few): " For the many, not the jews ". For the many, but not for the Jews.
The chief rabbi's accusations coincide with rumors about a plot or Labor plan to replace Corbyn as leader after the elections, as the price of a possible alliance with Liberal Democrats and Scottish separatists to form a coalition government in case the conservatives don't get the majority absolute. In practice another Labor, not Corbyn, would become premier in this hypothesis, facilitating the alliance with the other parties, which expressed strong doubts about his leadership. Labor sources deny that this could happen and in fact it seems difficult that Corbyn and the Labor leadership would step aside, but the accounts will be made after the vote.However, doubts also circulate about Boris Johnson's leadership: rapper Stormzy states that the conservative prime minister has "something sinister". And former Tories deputy premier Michael Heseltine, one of the party's great old men, now an anti-Brexit member of the House of Lords, openly urges voters not to vote for Tories, rather than supporting libdems.

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