The US satirist Jon Stewart has waded into the row about Britain’s Labour party blocking an academic from standing as a candidate in July’s general election over her social media activity.
Faiza Shaheen was not endorsed as the Labour candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green in north London after she liked a series of posts on X that allegedly downplayed antisemitism accusations, one of which featured a clip from an episode of The Daily Show, which Stewart hosted.
