Maxine Peake has broken her silence after Rebecca Long-Bailey was sacked from the shadow cabinet today. Long-Bailey was forced out of her job after tweeting a link to an interview with Peake that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said contained an 'antisemitic conspiracy theory.' Peake claimed that police in America who kneeled on George Floyd's neck had learned the tactic from 'seminars with Israeli secret services'.
Taking to Twitter this evening, Peake told followers her assumption had been 'inaccurate'. She posted: "I feel it’s important for me to clarify that, when talking to The Independent, I was inaccurate in my assumption of American Police training & its sources.
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