Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said Labour will not support forming a partnership with the Green Party while it maintains a policy defining Zionism as a form of racism.
Responding at Prime Minister's Questions after Conservative MP Dame Harriett Baldwin urged him to rule out co-operating with the Greens, Andy Burnham condemned the motion passed at the Green Party conference earlier this month.
Andy Burnham: 'Wrong' and 'antisemitic'
He said: "It is wrong, it is antisemitic, and this side of the House will have nothing to do with it."
He added that Labour "cannot support a partnership with a party that holds the position that has recently been adopted."
The motion described Zionism as an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population." It was criticised by Jewish groups, four Green MPs and two former leaders.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called the wording "imperfect" while defending the substance of the motion's critique of Israel's actions in Gaza. Israel has repeatedly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide.
Labour currently shares power with Greens on some local councils. A Downing Street spokesman would not confirm whether the Prime Minister's position extended beyond national government.
