Graeme Demianyk is a news editor at HuffPost UK, and is based in New York. As well as being night new editor, he has written extensively on the Grenfell tower disaster and the UK's housing crisis.
appearing to show he said “fucking Israel”, while also allegedly suggesting that British people who volunteer to fight with the Israeli Defence Forces should be “locked up”.The Hyndburn candidate’s remarks reportedly happened at the same private meeting of Labour activists, in Lancashire in October, that led to the
“There was a fulsome apology. Further information came to light yesterday calling for decisive action, so I took decisive action.” It is too late for Labour to remove Ali as their candidate and replace him with someone else as the deadline passed on February 2.
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