by Matt Trinder
Industrial reporter
AN EMERGENCY Labour conference must urgently be held online in light of attacks on party “democracy and free speech,” MPs, activists and trade unions demanded today.
The Reclaim Democracy, Recall Conference (RDRC) campaign said that anger over motions being suppressed and members being suspended had reached breaking point and that the “very soul of the party” is now at stake.
Since Sir Keir Starmer became leader, members have been banned from voicing solidarity with his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn after he was suspended and subsequently readmitted to the party without the whip.
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says


