12: The Leaked Dossier

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🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

As Sir Kier Starmer began his leadership of the Labour Party, an explosive internal party dossier allegedly drafted in response to the EHRC investigation leaked online after news broke that Labour's own lawyers advised against submitting it.

Joining us in Episode 12, our first episode of the Post-Corbyn era, to discuss the Labour Leak, the party’s response to the antisemitism crisis and what this document means for the future of the party, are privileged The New Statesman’s Stephen Bush, journalist Nadine Batchelor-Hunt and the Jewish Labour Movement's national secretary Peter Mason.

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0:00.0	This is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour Party.
0:05.0	I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.
0:13.0	I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take
0:24.4	going forward. It's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corbynism.
0:33.1	The Corbyn era finally came to a close last week when Sarkier Stama won the Labour leadership contest by a landslide,
0:40.3	comfortably beating the Corbinite candidate Rebecca Long Bailey.
0:44.3	Stama's victory was further aided by victories for centre-left candidates on Labour's NEC,
0:50.3	a final nail in the coffin of Corbynite control of the party machinery.
1:00.0	Following comprehensive defeats in the general election and the Labour leadership contest, many within the party expected the problems of the Corbynite era to be consigned to the past.
1:05.0	However, some within the party had different ideas.
1:09.0	A report drafted in the wake of the general election defeat
1:12.4	by the remnants of Corbyn's party machinery, supposedly written in Labour's defence of the party's
1:18.1	response to the anti-Semitism crisis, was leaked, firstly to the press, before spreading across social media.
1:25.2	The report, which was filled with unredacted details of
1:28.9	hundreds of party members and staffers, was full of explosive allegations and incendiary
1:34.1	leaked private messages from Labour staffers hostile to the Corbyn Project. The leak began to spread
1:40.4	after reports that Labour's lawyers advised against presenting the potentially self-incriminating
1:45.9	dossier to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The dossier, which attempts to shift blame
1:51.3	away from the party leadership's response to anti-Semitism, portrays a culture of hostility and
1:56.5	unacceptable professional conduct within the party, particularly around issues related to racism,
2:02.2	but is the document an honest portrayal of events? Does it attempt to use unacceptable conduct in
2:07.7	certain corridors of the party to distract from the failings of the leadership? Does the report's
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