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Housing Minister Steve Reed accuses the Green Party of failing to do enough to tackle antisemitism after two of its candidates were arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred on social media. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Let's wait and see how people vote before we comment on what they've got to say.
00:03You know, in my borough, which is Lambeth, two Green Party candidates have been arrested
00:10on allegations of stirring up racial hatred because the Green Party have not checked the
00:16backgrounds of the people they've put up for election. And instead of responding with action
00:21when these problems have been pointed out, the Green Party is pretending it's not really going
00:26on. They've put out a letter to voters saying that this is just made up nonsense, as if
00:33there's nothing wrong with their candidates. They've been arrested for stirring up racial
00:36hatred. They've got a problem. When we saw anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, we kicked
00:41out the anti-Semites. The Green Party have put those people up for election and now they're
00:45defending them. They need to get real about this. Anti-Semitism is a problem that is warping
00:51the lives of the Jewish community in this country. We need every single party to call
00:55it out. And that includes Zach Polanski and the Greens.
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