Labour’s withdrawal of support for Azhar Ali ‘exposes quite serious things’ about party
Andrew Fisher, former head of policy for Jeremy Corbyn, has said the situation around Labour’s Rochdale by-election candidate “exposes quite serious things” about the party.
He told the media that Labour “have made the correct decision, they should have done it straight away when the first allegation against him was raised on Sunday”.
Mr Fisher said: “Instead, they were out canvassing for him on Sunday and sent shadow cabinet members all around the media to defend him, as if this was some kind of one-off error he had made.
“Of course, further allegations have come out.
“All it does is expose quite serious things within the Labour Party’s processes.
“One, there clearly wasn’t due diligence done on this candidate to have highlighted this in advance.
“Secondly it shows the double standards there are when tackling serious issues of racism and conspiracy theories within the party.”
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