Labour anti-Semitism row threatens to divide the Party

by Guest Mon Mar 07, 2016 3:16 pm

Former shadow cabinet ministers call for suppressed investigation to be published as Party is accused of failing to take issue seriously.

The Labour anti-Semitism row threatens to divide the Party as two former shadow cabinet ministers accuse officials of failing to take the issue seriously. It comes as insiders claim that Jeremy Corbyn is trying to “bury" the Party’s problem with anti-Semitism after refusing to publish the original investigation into harassment of Jewish students at Oxford University, then subsuming it within a new, wider inquiry that involves unrelated complaints. Michael Dugher MP and Rachel Reeves MP, both of whom held shadow cabinet roles under Ed Miliband, called for the initial report by Labour Students to be published immediately.
Mr Dugher and Ms Reeves said the Labour Students investigation must be published “in the interests of transparency” and "to demonstrate beyond all doubt the seriousness with which we take these allegations”. They said told Jewish News that it “isn’t acceptable for the Party to now wrap serious allegations about anti-Semitism inside Labour Students into a wider inquiry”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12181673/Labour-anti-Semitism-row-threatens-to-divide-the-Party.html