Speeches by Murray.

“I want to drill down a little into what you are saying about running the national and local inquiries concurrently. There will be a rolling programme of local inquiries and an ongoing national set of broader themes. How will that work in practice? What is your methodology for ensuring that you are not halfway down the …”

“That the local ones will delay the national themes.”

“Can I push a little further on that? Put Bradford aside for a second, but let’s keep Oldham on the table. It was already made clear that Oldham was going to be included because the Home Secretary said so, the council came forward, and you accepted that. After that was all agreed, collectively, you have come in to start…”

“By definition, Oldham will be included.”

“I want to keep pressing, if you don’t mind, about the £65 million and the three years. Can you explain what the process was like with the Home Office or the Cabinet Office when you set this up? Did they say to you, “What can you deliver for £65 million?” or, “What can you get done in three years?” Or did you say, “We t…”

“I accept that. Oldham was already included before you came into your posts and decided to write the criteria. What is to stop Anywhere Town—another town in England and Wales that is not selected under your criteria where there have been instances of group-based abuse—coming forward and launching a judicial review again…”

“That is really helpful. Given that there are the limiting factors of £65 million and three years, which you accept and think are reasonable, going into this process, what is your attitude to the way the different local inquiries will be structured? You have already mentioned Oldham, and you sent letters out there. Will…”

“Could you explain what you mean by that? Do you think that you could be challenged if you use the wrong criteria?”

“Thank you for those answers. We talked about how politics and political debate affects and drives antisemitism, and I would like to look at other drivers. Obviously, antisemitism can be found in all types of communities. As we have just explored, it is universal across ideology and place on the political spectrum. How …”

“I am a member of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.”

“How effectively do you think the counter-extremism apparatus in the UK tackles antisemitism? In particular, what is your assessment of the effectiveness of Prevent?”

“Thank you. Before I open it up to the panel, are there any groups that are comparable, or are you able to disaggregate within the Muslim population? It could be anything—London versus Scotland, type of Islam, or level of generational integration. Are there any other indicators you would disaggregate? I will then open t…”

“That is a really important point. There are a lot of people in the country who are not antisemitic but deplore what is happening and the actions of Israel. I share that view. I am not talking about myself here, but if someone did want to express that view by going on a march—this Saturday, for example—how could that pe…”

“I want to turn to another driver of antisemitism. What is your view on the influence of foreign states fomenting antisemitism in the UK?”

“Your answers have ranged quite far, so you have covered a lot of my original questions. I want to come back to the point about the protests, specifically the ones this weekend, and I want to make a more general point in the context of the previous panel’s discussion. As a constituency MP, the No. 1 issue that people ha…”

“I want to pick up on a point that you made, Dave. When we speak to the police, what we hear a lot is that antisemitism is common across the far right, the far left, Islamists and non-ideological extremism. Do you have any reflections on that? Does it manifest differently among those groups?”

“Thank you. I want to ask about your recommendations to Government. You have already drawn the distinction between things that could be done immediately and things that take legislation, and that was really helpful. I want to zoom out from the specific recommendations that you are making and—I hope I am okay to say that…”

“Your point about arrest them, convict them, arrest them, convict them is a divergence from what we heard from the previous panel. They said that if there are protests where there are consistent arrests and convictions, that is a sign that the protest has not been undertaken in a way that they are comfortable with. That…”

“Thank you; I just wanted to clarify that. I should also have said thank you for coming in. Obviously, antisemitism is vile and inexplicable, but I want to ask what you perceive the drivers of it to be. This question is particularly for Danny but open to the whole panel: what do you think are the drivers of antisemitism…”

“What you are saying is really powerful and I just want to check that I am understanding. Are you saying that the growth of antisemitism that you have come across in the last couple of years is a growth in both its spread and its intensity, or are you saying that it is the spread that is the key distinction with the sit…”