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‘Bring me the head of Jeremy the Baptist’
by ALAN SIMPSON

PERHAPS it should read “…Jeremy the Bastard” or “…Jeremy the Pacifist.” But “…Jeremy the anti-semite” is today’s barely concealed lynching cry.
And for the moment Labour has complied: suspending him from the parliamentary party and spinning everything into a political confusion that will end up doing Labour no favours whatsoever.
The game plan is as much about hobbling Sir Keir as nobbling Jeremy.
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