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Flickers of light and north London elites
Anti-semitism and racism are to be found in spades in today’s Toryland, says DAVID ROSENBERG

FOR those members of the media/commentariat who have spent the last four years largely looking in the wrong place for the presence of anti-semitism in British politics, the week leading up to Friday’s anniversary of the battle of Cable Street might just have provided a flicker of light for them, encouraging them to look elsewhere.

On Tuesday, Priti Patel, the hard-right home secretary, an immigrant herself, spoke out forcefully against immigration and “freedom of movement” and lambasted those she thinks encourage it. 

“This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London metropolitan liberal elite,” she said.

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