Corbyn v Johnson

yesterday evening (friday 6th), 8.49-8.53pm, on bbc 1 tv (partly repeated 10.31-10.32pm on newsnight on bbc 2 tv)

prime ministerial debate (chaired by nick robinson) includes …

“[NR] Jeremy Corbyn, it is extraordinary isn’t it that the leader of a religious community has to warn people about you and your party?”

“[NR] What Jewish members of the Labour Party say is if this was black or asian people who were victims of racism, you would listen to them but when Jews say that your party under your leadership is infected with anti-Jewish hatred, you say no no I know better?”

“[BJ] His unwillingness to take a stand, to stand up for Jewish people in the Labour Party, his unwillingnes to protect them, to put an arm round them, is in my view a failure of leadership.”

including contributions from …

• jeremy corbyn

• boris johnson

Today: No Corbyn apology

this morning (wednesday 27th), 6.34-6.35am, 6.48-6.50am, 7.15-7.17am, 8.02-8.03am, and 8.54-9.00am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson) includes…

“In his interview with Andrew Neil, the Labour leader declined four times to say sorry, but Nia Griffith who speaks on defence later told a BBC Wales debate the party’s handling of the issue was ‘a shame on us’.”

including contributions from …

• richard burgon mp

• journalist ayesha hazarika  

• journalist michael segalov

(nia griffith’s answer on the bbc radio wales election debate podcast is from 0:53:45 to 0:54:36 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07vt1t9)

MN/Today: Mirvis intervenes

this morning (tuesday 26th), 12.00-12.05am, 6.00-6.03am, 6.08-6.09am, 6.12-6.14am, 6.31-6.34am, 7.00-7.04am, 7.09-7.15am, 8.00-8.05am, and 8.10-8.22am, on bbc radio 4

midnight news and today (presented by nick robinson) both lead with …

“The Chief Rabbi has condemned Labour’s claims to be tackling anti-semitism as ‘mendacious fiction’, and questioned whether Jeremy Corbyn is fit to be prime minister.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter martin bashir 

• jenny manson, co-chair, “jewish voice for labour”

• bbc reporter chris mason

• bbc reporter norman smith

• rabbi julia neuberger

• lord dubs

• bbc reporter laura kuenssberg

Today: US okays settlements

this morning (tuesday 19th), 6.07-6.08am, 7.02-7.03am, 8.02-8.03am, and 8.31-8.34am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by justin webb and nick robinson) includes …

“Palestinians have expressed anger after the Trump administration said it no longer considers Israeli settlements built in the occupied West Bank to be illegal, The move, announced by the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, reverses a 40-year-old US policy, and puts Washington at odds with virtually all other countries, as well as Security Council resolutions.”

including contributions from …

• saeb erekat

• bbc reporter barbara plett-usher

• bbc reporter jon sopel

Today: Gaza ceasefire

this morning (thursday 14th), 7.05-7.06am (repeated 8.06am), on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson and martha kearney) includes…

“The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says a ceasefire has been reached with Israel, after two days of violent clashes in Gaza. More than thirty people have died … Paramedics in Israel say around eighty people have needed treatment for minor injuries, including from shrapnel, after militants fired hundreds of rockets and mortars from Gaza.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter tom bateman

Today: Chakrabarti on antisemitism

this morning (friday 8th), 6.52-6.55am and 7.13-7.15am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and nick robinson) includes…

“We heard earlier on this programme from Labour MP Margaret Hodge, longstanding Labour politician, former minister, who couldn’t bring herself to endorse Jeremy Corbyn in this election?”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter ross hawkins

• margaret hodge mp

• shami chakrabarti

Today: Austin on Corbyn

this morning (thursday 7th), 6.43-6.44am, 7.09-7.18am, 7.43-7.44am, 8.03-8.05am, and 8.28-8.33am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and nick robinson) includes…

“I think he’s spent his entire time in politics working with and defending all sorts of people, extremists and in some cases antisemites and terrorists.”

“Most shamefully of all, for a party that’s got a proud record of fighting for equality and opposing racism, the Labour Party’s been poisoned with anti-Jewish racism under his leadership, and it is a complete and utter disgrace.”

“If you’re not going to do what’s right on a fundamental question like racism, what are you going to do it on?”

including contributions from …

• ian austin mp

• bbc reporter chris mason

• rebecca long-bailey mp