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…