NO FEAR
Michael Gove tells Britain’s Jews ‘you should never live in fear again’ after defeating Corbyn’s Labour
MICHAEL Gove has told Britain's Jews 'you should never live in fear again' after defeating Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster made the vow after the Tories won a thumping majority.
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It comes after a host of former Labour MPs lines up to lash out at Jeremy Corbyn and his record on anti-Semitism.
He said: "A message to Our Jewish friends and neighbours.
"You have had to live in fear for months, concerned we would have a pm that embraced anti Jewish rhetoric and embraced anti Jewish terrorists.
"You should never have to live in fear again."
He made the pledge as Labour's Ruth Smeeth said her own party is racist and should have ditched Jeremy Corbyn “months ago”.
Her furious tirade came as she announced she had “definitely lost” her seat, on a disastrous general election night for Labour.
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Smeeth’s Stoke-on-Trent South constituency was one of Labour’s “Red Wall” of seats that fell to the Conservatives to re-draw the political map of England.
Corbyn has finally announce he is to quit but the she said he should have gone a long time ago.
“Jeremy Corbyn’s actions on antisemitism have made us the nasty party. We are the racist party,” she told Sky News.
“He should have gone many many, many months ago. I am, well I was, the Parliamentary chair of the Jewish Labour Movement. We passed a motion of no confidence in him in April.
"There is absolutely no justification for why he is still there and his personal actions have delivered this result for my constituents and for swathes of the country overnight."
'NASTY PARTY'
Ms Smeeth said the general election had been an “appalling night for my constituents, it's an appalling night for the country”.
“The Labour Party has huge, huge questions to answer by first of all having this when they were so ill-prepared for it.
"This is an appalling, heartbreaking night for the Labour Party but I'm much much more worried now about what happens to my constituents.”
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Focus groups showed how badly Corbyn and his muddled stance on Brexit, weakness on national security and anti-Semitism went down with northern voters.
Corbyn has announced he will resign as Labour leader after leading the party to its worst election defeat since 1935.
MPs and former ministers had lined up to demand the hard-left leader's resignation after the exit poll suggested Labour would win a humiliating 191 seats.
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