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"I’m deeply frustrated that we’re in this place," Keir Starmer tells #JLM2020. "I can’t tell you how disappointed how I was with Jeremy Corbyn’s response... That has exacerbated the pain and the hurt and we’re in a position that I did not want to be in."

"I genuinely thought on the day of the Commission report we could take the next important step of mending the situation... We’ve had to be tough, determined. We’re very conscious of the atmosphere at some CLP meetings at the moment. We're determined to deal with that."

Starmer emphasises need to "change the culture" of the Labour Party and says: "It has to come from me. I have to lead that zero tolerance." Of the Nottingham East Labour meeting: "We’re not going to tolerate this behaviour in our party." #JLM2020

Starmer says: "We’re only in this place because of Jeremy’s response to the Commission... We’ve been set back by what Jeremy did in response to the commission." He adds "I want to get that focus back on where it needs to be" – away from "individuals". #JLM2020

"I don’t want us to be talking about Labour and antisemitism in the months and years to come... I do think we can get past this. We had been making good progress." Starmer says what happened on the morning of EHRC "undermined me and what I was trying to achieve". #JLM2020

NEW: Of the five-year rule not allowing people to rejoin Labour if they supported non-Labour candidates, Starmer says "we need to look again at that where people left the party because of antisemitism".

Starmer says the group of people in deny antisemitism in Labour is "just as bad" as "people who say and do antisemitic things". In discussions with JLM about education and Starmer says "I don’t think we should see the EHRC as the limit of our ambitions" on such measures. #JLM2020

On Brexit, Starmer says there's a "big discussion" around Labour's vote if government does get a deal and put it to MPs. "We need a deal... We will then look at that deal... We will then make a decision on whether to vote for it or abstain."

Starmer on Brexit says "I don’t think there’s a much of a case for voting against it", as this would be effectively voting for no deal, he is "listening to a number of different views" and there are "no easy answers". #JLM2020