Former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s most significant political achievement was to split the Labour Party.
He achieved this by governing in the interests of a tiny right-wing coterie with a special expertise in the politics of personal destruction. Their sectarian vision inflicted grave and lasting damage not just on the Labour Party but also on Britain.
The Starmer faction targeted the traditional Labour left, but reserved special venom for British Muslims. They enjoyed a unique place in Starmer’s political universe.
If politically inert, British Muslims were treated with "benign neglect", the policy regarding race relations proposed by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in a 1970 memo to late US President Richard Nixon.
If active, they were automatic objects of suspicion. They were spied on, smeared and in many cases driven out of the party altogether.
