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Labour says it’s told all of its local councils who share power with the Green Party to review their agreements after the Greens passed a “Zionism is Racism” motion at their autumn conference earlier this month.
If Green coalition partners don’t agree to condemn the policy, the Labour council groups have been instructed to terminate existing power deals.
We cannot support a partnership with a party that holds [the] position that has recently been adopted.
“Now is the time to step up pressure on Putin and step up support for Ukraine.”
“I’m working on different ways we can step up support for Ukraine, military, diplomatic, and economic, and you know, if anybody needed any reminder of that, it’s what we see coming out of Ukraine, with Putin targeting these energy systems, leaving thousands without power, as we’ve got a harsh winter approaching.
The future of Ukraine is the future of European security, and that’s that’s why it’s so crucial that Putin doesn’t prevail.”d
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