FILM director Ken Loach is calling on the Labour Party not to give in to pressure from the right and “betray Palestinians” in a futile bid to appease Jeremy Corbyn’s enemies.

Speaking exclusively to the Morning Star, the legendary director of Kes, Cathy Come Home and I, Daniel Blake warned that adopting a set of examples attached to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism would not satisfy critics whose real goal was to smother the party’s socialist revival.