2010: Jeremy Corbyn hosts a talk at the House of Commons where Hajo Meyer, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, likened the Israeli government to the Nazis

When Jeremy Corbyn reluctantly agreed to be the token hard-left candidate for the Labour leadership in June 2015 — “Diane [Abbott] and John [McDonnell] have done it before so it was my turn” — he cannot have imagined the scrutiny his previous three decades in parliament would come under.

By August, when Mr Corbyn had to everyone’s surprise, not least his own, become the frontrunner, it ought to have been clear. The Jewish Chronicle, Britain’s oldest and most widely read Jewish newspaper, ran a front-page editorial “expressing deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr Corbyn’s election as Labour leader” because he had associated with “Holocaust deniers, terrorists and some outright antisemites”.

This was probably the best that relations have been between the Labour Party