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Leaked internal Labour report reveals Islamophobia and inaction among party HQ senior ranks

FORMER senior Labour staff were shown to have supported anti-Islam views and to have discussed delaying investigations into Islamophobia within the party, according to the internal party report leaked to Sky News.

Muslim Council of Britain spokesman Miqdaad Versi said yesterday that the instances of Islamophobia and references to it being ignored are “appalling.”

After the 2017 Westminster attack, James McBride — then of Labour’s policy unit — shared a clip of right-wing commentator Douglas Murray speaking on BBC Daily Politics.

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