Responding to Faiza Shaheen being blocked from standing as a Labour candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green over past posts on social media website X (formerly Twitter), more than a hundred supporters gathered outside a supermarket in Highams Park, north-west London, May 31, 2024
BARRED Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen is to fight the Chingford seat of former Tory leader Iain Duncan-Smith as an independent in the general election.
Bowing to outraged local opinion after being ruled out as Labour candidate despite being democratically selected by the constituency party, Ms Shaheen said that the community is “tired of the Tories but now feel they can’t trust Labour.”
Her deselection as a candidate following complaints by the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) sparked a row over Labour racism and criticism from across the political spectrum.
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
