Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn

The EHRC report should be implemented in full

Update: Subsequent to this article, Corbyn refused to apologise for what he said, and refused to accept a carefully crafted deal to readmit him to the PLP. He remains a member of the party and will not be allowed to stand as an MP — and I agree with that.

Jeremy Corbyn stood for election in Islington North as a Labour MP, on a manifesto he had co-authored and on his record as a lifelong anti-racist. To suspend him from the Labour Party, and withdraw the whip, for expressing an opinion is unjust — however much Labour HQ disagrees with that opinion.

I urge the General Secretary to reinstate Jeremy immediately. If there is a complaint against a senior MP and Privy Council member it should be stated, heard and dealt with in that order, not through an arbitrary suspension that deprives him of his rights, and deprives his CLP and constituents of their representative in the PLP.

The EHRC report should be accepted in full and implemented in full.

Its publication should have been a day to draw the line under Labour’s mishandling of the problem of anti-semitism in the party during Jeremy’s leadership. The report was fair, and cleared the party of institutional racism, but identified three serious breaches of equalities law, for which…