Pat McFadden hits out Labour’s Azhar Ali’s ‘appalling’ claim Israel allowed 7 October attack Source: Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
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00:00 It reports this morning that the Labour candidate for the Rochdale by-election, Azar Ali, has
00:04 claimed that Israel knew about the attack on October the 7th and let it happen to give
00:10 them a green light to do what they want in Gaza.
00:13 Now he has since apologised for his comments, but does someone like that, with those views,
00:21 have a place in Kirsteiners Labour Party?
00:23 What he said was completely wrong.
00:25 I was appalled when I saw it.
00:27 It's quite right he apologised and completely retracted and I hope he learns a lesson from
00:32 it.
00:33 Should he still be a Labour candidate?
00:34 Well, he's given a full apology and a full retraction, but those comments were completely
00:39 wrong and they certainly don't represent the Labour Party's view.