The Labour leader spoke out after the Tory party suspended Lee Anderson over comments he made about the mayor of London.
Sir Keir Starmer has accused the prime minister of harbouring extremists in his party after a senior Tory MP was suspended for 'Islamophobic' comments. The Labour leader said Rishi Sunak's 'weakness' allowed Lee Anderson 'to act with impunity' and that he 'needs to get a grip and take on the extremists in his party'. Sir Keir said it was 'right' that Mr Anderson lost the whip after what he called an 'appalling racist and Islamophobic outburst'.
'Legitimate protests hijacked by extremists to promote and glorify terrorism, elected representatives verbally threatened and physically, violently targeted and antisemitic tropes beamed onto our own parliament building.' Referring to when the Commons Speaker broke convention in a Gaza ceasefire debate this week out of fears' for MPs' safety, Mr Sunak said: 'And in parliament this week a very dangerous signal was sent that this sort of intimidation works.
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