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EXCLUSIVE: Labour’s compliance unit took months to act on some of its most high-profile and shocking anti-Semitism cases, a cache of hundreds of internal emails leaked to BuzzFeed News reveals
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Leaked emails between former compliance heads Sam Matthews, John Stolliday and other officials show the unit:
- took a year to suspend a member who defended Cable Street fascists
- eight months to suspend a candidate who said the Holocaust was a “hoax”
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- took a year to suspend a member who defended Cable Street fascists
- eight months to suspend a candidate who said the Holocaust was a “hoax”
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One member was only suspended after a senior member of Labour’s NEC intervened and 300 members signed a petition.
Action was only taken against the ‘Holocaust hoax’ candidate when his posts were shared on social media by anti-racism campaigners:
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Action was only taken against the ‘Holocaust hoax’ candidate when his posts were shared on social media by anti-racism campaigners:
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The leaked emails show Labour's compliance unit took nearly a year to launch a formal investigation into further comments made by Ken Livingstone on Hitler and Zionism, despite internal attempts by Corbyn’s office to have his suspension extended buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/le…
Former official who leaked the emails: “Labour’s compliance unit prior to Jennie Formby taking over failed to suspend members who had made appalling anti-Semitic remarks despite clear evidence and attempts by colleagues and complainants to seek action" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/le…
