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A Labour peer has described Sir Keir Starmer's decision to withdraw support for Azhar Ali as a "big, bold move".

Lord Mann added the Labour leader "would be seething" to have ended up in a situation wherein he's had to give up a parliamentary seat.
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00:00 Well clearly someone didn't do the job properly and Sir Keir Starmer will be fuming at the
00:06 fact that he's been put in this position.
00:09 And it's a massive decision.
00:11 It's never happened before to give up a parliamentary seat, which is what's happened, a Labour seat
00:19 held by the late Tony Lloyd, a good friend of mine, to give up a seat that you actually
00:25 have as a party.
00:26 And at this time in election year, it's quite unprecedented.
00:30 It's a bold move and it's a big move.
00:34 And I think the Jewish community actually will take a lot of reassurance from the fact
00:38 that the decision has been made.
00:40 He's going to be seething.
00:42 He's going to be absolutely seething.
00:45 He didn't select the candidate and he's ended up in this situation.
00:49 Well where was the due diligence?
00:51 And he's going to come out and reaffirm that when it comes to extremist views, when it
00:56 comes to anti-Semitism, he's not tolerating it.
01:00 There are no exceptions.
01:02 Whoever they are, however high or mighty they might be, however important they are.

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