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Gagging regime: Keir Starmer
LOCAL Labour branches have been ordered by the party not to discuss investigations into anti-semitism, a related libel settlement and the adoption of a controversial definition of anti-Jewish prejudice.
Labour general security David Evans, who took up the post in May, told constituency parties that the recent Panorama settlement and the Equality and Human Rights Commission reports are “not competent business for discussion by local parties.”
He added that they should not consider motions that “repudiate” the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-semitism.
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
The suspended Labour MP’s historic resignation to found a working-class party has lit up social media with excitement as thousands knock at the door wanting involvement in the desperately needed project, writes ANDREW BURGIN
