Join us to fight for a better Labour

Mike Katz
4 min readDec 24, 2019

This first appeared in LabourList on 23 December 2019. You can join the Jewish Labour Movement here

It is hard for anyone associated with Labour – now or in the past – to find any silver linings in the party’s seismic election defeat. But one might be the opportunity that it gives the party to start the long journey of rebuilding trust with the Jewish community.

Crashing down to barely 200 MPs makes this Labour’s worst election performance since 1935. Post-election polling shows we lost to the Tories in every socio-economic group: now we are…

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Mike Katz

National Chair, Jewish Labour Movement. Member, Labour Party Antisemitism Advisory Board & Daily Mirror Editorial Advisory Panel. Sadly Spursy.