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‘Bring me the head of Jeremy the Baptist’
by ALAN SIMPSON
Jeremy Corbyn putting on mask

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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