In this op-ed video, Peter Oborne explains how Labour leader Keir Starmer appears to be following Boris Johnson's ugly and cynical electoral strategy, shutting the door on marginalised voices, and how political commentators are expressing shock and bemusement at Keir Starmer’s brutal targeting of the Labour left on the eve of a UK general election.
Oborne talks about the Labour Files, a documentary by Al Jazeera based on the biggest leak of confidential documents in British political history, which uncovers how the Labour machine bullied party members and manipulated internal democracy. The documentary brought to light a hidden story of anti-Black racism and naked Islamophobia inside Labour HQ.
Oborne says Starmer’s Labour Party has been captured by a small, highly determined right-wing clique, one that is as insouciant of Labour’s magnificent history and democratic tradition as it is contemptuous of ethnic minorities.
Oborne believes that the mainstream media is ignoring evidence of naked racism within Labour because much of the British media shares the basic attitudes of Starmer’s Labour Party: the toxic racism towards Black people, the contempt for Muslims, the almost uncritical support for Israel despite its atrocities against Palestinians, and the worship of power at all costs - not to mention the instinctive authoritarianism, and contempt for due process and basic decency.
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