The Labour Party on Thursday announced that former leader Jeremy Corbyn had been suspended and his whip removed following his response to the report of the Equality Human Rights Commission into allegations of anti-semitism within the party.
In the report titled ‘Investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party’, the EHRC found the Labour Party guilty regarding the conduct of one of its members whose social media posts used “obviously antisemitic” tropes.
Corbyn denounced the report, which highlighted numerous complaints made during his tenure, saying they were “dramatically overstated for political reasons”.
A Labour Party spokesperson released the following, “In light of his comments made today and his failure to retract them subsequently, the Labour Party has suspended Jeremy Corbyn pending investigation. He has also had the whip removed from the Parliamentary Labour Party.”
Corbyn, the MP from Islington North since 1983, led the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020 during which period he was also Leader of the Opposition. Following the party’s defeat in the 2019 general election, Corbyn announced that he would not lead the Labour Party into its next election. The subsequent leadership election saw Keir Starmer appointed Labour Leader.
Starmer called the report a “day of shame” for the Labour Party and has kept open the possibility of “disciplinary action”
