UK: Kair Starmar, who is married to a Jewish woman, wins Labor election • Jewish party members happily responded to victory: "It's been 5 dark years"

Discriminatory to Jeremy Crobin: In the shadow of the Corona, Saturday's Labor party election was held by Kier Starmar with more than 56% of the vote, ending Corbin's five-year term after running for the party. Angela Reiner was chosen as Starmer's deputy.

New Labor Party leader: "Fighting anti-Semitism" // Photo: Reuters

The new leader said that one of his top priorities is erasing the existing anti-Semitism within the Labor Party in recent years. "Anti-Semitism is a reporter in our party and I saw the pain it brought to many Jewish party members. On behalf of all members, I am sorry. I will put an end to anti-Semitism and insist that party members who left us in the aftermath return to us."

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Starmar is married to Victoria, who comes from a Jewish family from London. In the interview, he said he "very much loves the family Sabbath meal and the tradition that includes Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations, a walk to the synagogue and more."

While Starmar himself refuses to refer to himself as a Zionist, he said in an interview a few months ago that he "supports Zionism and in particular supports Israel's right to exist in the homeland of the Jewish people."

The Jewish party members responded with great joy to Starmer's victory, saying that "Corbin's 5 years were a dark time for us."

At the same time, within the UK, Starmer's first mission is of course to deal with the Corona crisis, calling on all UK party leaders, including incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson. After the victory, Starmer announced that he would be moving continuously with Johnson and that he was aware To the size of the task at hand.

In a statement he gave to the media after his victory, he said: "We have lost four election campaigns in a row. We have a mountain to climb and I will do everything I can to connect us, to re-engage with our various communities and voters."