Jeremy Corbyn has launched a strong defence of the Stop the War Coalition describing them as “a vital democratic campaign” as he rejected a call by the former shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt to pull out of a Christmas fundraising event.
In light of Labour’s byelection victory and his success in securing support among a party majority against the airstrikes in Syria, the Labour leader took a bolder approach in saying the coalition “has repeatedly called it right”.
Corbyn spoke out after Hunt called on him to pull out of a Christmas fundraising event organised by the “disreputable” Stop the War Coalition. Hunt cited “ugly comments” about the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and a blog on the coalition’s website which said that Paris was “reaping the whirlwind” of western military intervention in the Middle East. A Labour source pointed out that the Paris blog had been taken down because it did not reflect the organisation’s views.
A spokesperson for Corbyn rsaid: “The anti-war movement has been a vital democratic campaign which organised the biggest demonstrations in British history and has repeatedly called it right over 14 years of disastrous wars in the wider Middle East.
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