LABOUR IN CHAOS BY WITHDRAWING SUPPORT FROM BY-ELECTION CANDIDATE Labour’s Azhar Ali unreservedly apologised to the Jewish community
Opposition Labour Party has withdrawn support for its candidate to become a member of parliament in a special election after he was recorded espousing conspiracy theories about Israel.
Labour announced today it had withdrawn support for Azhar Ali, its by-election candidate for Rochdale in northern England, after he suggested Israel had relaxed its security in run up to the attack by Hamas last year to provide grounds to invade Gaza.
A spokesperson for Labour said that the party had withdrawn support for Ali, and it will not be able to find another candidate because the deadline has passed to replace him.
Ali said that the United States had warned Israel a day before that an attack was planned by Hamas and they “deliberately took the security off” so they would have the opportunity to “do whatever they bloody want,” according to a recording reported in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Israel launched its offensive on Gaza after Hamas militants stormed the country on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people, and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli officials.