Labour’s shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon has faced calls to resign for describing Zionism—the ideology that is used to justify Palestinian oppression—as “the enemy of peace”.
On Tuesday evening May deepened the Tories’ splits after she offered to work with Jeremy Corbyn to come up with a compromise Brexit deal. The move was a sign of May’s weakness. But it is also a trap for Labour.
Until recently the Corbyn-supporting Momentum group hasn’t done much beyond organising canvassing days and online petitions. Now all of a sudden it’s organising protests over climate change.