Corbyn criticises Hunt and Johnson for failing to call Trump’s attacks ‘racist’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Jeremy Corbyn has criticised the Tory leadership candidates for failing to label Donald Trump’s attacks as racist after the US President told four congresswomen of colour to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;go back” to where they came from&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump continued his belligerent remarks against the four Democratic politicians&comma; ordering them to get out of the US &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;right now”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The doubling down came after he told them to return to the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;broken and crime infested places from which they came”&period; All but one of the women were born in the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt joined Theresa May in criticising the president’s words as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;completely unacceptable”&comma; but refused to call them out as racist as they have been widely denounced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They did&comma; however&comma; suggest the Labour leader may be anti-Semitic over his handling of the crisis within his party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Tuesday&comma; Mr Corbyn tweeted&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Telling four Congresswomen of colour to &OpenCurlyQuote;go back’ is racist&period; But the Tory leadership candidates can’t bring themselves to say so&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We should stand up to Donald Trump&comma; not pander to him for a sweetheart trade deal which would put our NHS at risk&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Telling four Congresswomen of colour to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;go back” is racist&period; But the Tory leadership candidates can’t bring themselves to say so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We should stand up to Donald Trump&comma; not pander to him for a sweetheart trade deal which would put our NHS at risk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Jeremy Corbyn &lpar;&commat;jeremycorbyn&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;jeremycorbyn&sol;status&sol;1151039912176693250&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">July 16&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Johnson&comma; a former foreign secretary&comma; refused to say Mr Trump’s tirades were racist when pressed twice on the issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Hunt said the words were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;totally offensive” but said that as the current Foreign Secretary it would not be helpful to label the president’s remarks as racist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However the pair&comma; when questioned at a head-to-head debate on Monday&comma; did suggest Mr Corbyn may harbour anti-Semitic views in the wake of a damning report by the BBC’s Panorama on Labour’s handling of the issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump’s attacks were aimed at congresswomen Ilhan Omar&comma; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&comma; Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib&period; They are all American citizens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The women struck back at the president on Monday for his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;xenophobic bigoted remarks” and renewed calls for his impeachment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Mr Trump’s campaign slogan really means he wants to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;make America white again”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&comma; however&comma; remained unrepentant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me&comma;”<&sol;em> he said at the White House on Monday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If you’re not happy in the US&comma; if you’re complaining all the time&comma; you can leave&comma; you can leave right now&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The UK leaders’ words against the president came at a time of heightened transatlantic tensions and while a post-Brexit trade deal is being eyed up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A storm was created by the leak of diplomatic messages from Britain’s ambassador in Washington&comma; Sir Kim Darroch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was forced to resign after Mr Trump attacked the ambassador’s descriptions of the current White House as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;inept” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dysfunctional”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">So interesting to see &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen&comma; who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe&comma; the worst&comma; most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world &lpar;if they even have a functioning government at all&rpar;&comma; now loudly&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;realDonaldTrump&sol;status&sol;1150381394234941448&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">July 14&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Board of Deputies of British Jews added to the list of Mr Trump’s critics on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Marie van der Zyl said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These are appalling and unjustifiable comments&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Whatever one’s political disagreements&comma; telling people to &OpenCurlyQuote;go back home to where they came from’ can never be the right response&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd31dd23620">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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