There were also mentions of Corbyn’s former chief of staff, Karie Murphy, as “medusa”, a “crazy woman” and a “bitch face cow” that would “make a good dartboard”. The inquiry has also look at whether the party “has responded to complaints of unlawful acts in a lawful, efficient and effective manner”. One of the 32 claimants told the Guardian the evidence in Gardiner’s email was “hugely damaging” for Labour. "The EHRC's report is a pivotal moment in this corrective process.". © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Labour says it has received the draft findings of the equality watchdog's report into anti-Semitism in the party. However, Labour List argues that “it is not considered beyond the bounds of possibility that individuals will be censured”. "It is sent in confidence by the EHRC, so until that process is completed, it would be inappropriate to comment on any of the contents of the draft report. More on Labour EHRC report: everything you need to know about the anti-Semitism investigation. Slim Patches: Do They Help You Lose Weight? "We are committed to cooperating fully with the Commission's investigation and implementing its recommendations when the final report is published.". But three years later, during the 2019 election campaign, Corbyn appeared to concede that his party did have a problem with anti-Semitism. “I realise it will not be helpful not to further use the report, given that it has apparently been leaked in a previous version, but I must register this formal objection.”. The inquiry was set up following complaints by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM). A Labour spokesman rejected "any suggestion that the party does not handle ant-Semitism complaints fairly and robustly, or that the party has acted unlawfully". Commissioned before Starmer became leader, it contained leaked WhatsApp messages referring to Corbyn-supporting party staff as “trots” and conversations referring to the former director of communications Seumas Milne as “dracula”. What this email suggests is that this is exactly what Labour knew it was doing,” the claimant said. The party said Sir Keir and his deputy Angela Rayner, who were elected in April, would not be commenting before then but were clear that eradicating anti-Semitism and restoring trust with the Jewish community was a priority. After comments by Naz Shah in 2014 and Ken Livingstone in 2016 resulted in their suspension from membership pending investigation, Corbyn established the Chakrabarti Inquiry, which concluded that the party was not "overrun by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism", although there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere" and "clear evidence of ig… Last month, as Labour awaited the findings of the EHRC investigation, Corbyn cast doubt on the independence of the commission. In 2018, a round of protests “flared up after the leader gave his backing to an anti-Semitic London mural, something he later retracted and apologised for”, as The Independent reported in the aftermath. “Anti-Semitism was generally not regarded as a big problem in the Labour Party before Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader in September 2015,” says the BBC. In his first interview after stepping down as party leader, Corbyn told Middle East Eye that he believed the watchdog was “part of the government machine”. The once anti-racist Labour Party has become the first political party to be subject to a full statutory investigation under section 20 of the Equality Act 2010. “The report also includes confidential private WhatsApp and other messages – a clear and unacceptable breach of confidence. Although EHRC reports are not always made public, Labour officials have said the party would like to see the investigation findings published. And where allegations were found to have been inadequately investigated, the inquiry blamed anti-Corbyn staff in Labour’s headquarters for creating a “hyper-factional atmosphere [that] affected the expeditious and resolute handling of disciplinary complaints”. 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