13: The Suspension Of Jeremy Corbyn

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Joining us on this very special edition of the podcast, to discuss the EHRC report into Labour's institutional antisemitism, Corbyn’s suspension, and where the Labour Party goes from here, we are privileged to be joined by Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, human rights barrister Adam Wagner, former Labour MP Ruth Smeeth and the New Statesman's political editor Stephen Bush.

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0:32.6	This is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour Party.
0:38.3	I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.
0:45.3	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 going forward.
1:00.8	It's not Corbynism. There is no such thing as Corpism.
1:06.9	On October 29, 2020, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission's report into Labour Party
1:13.9	anti-Semitism was released. The conclusions were damning. The Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn's office
1:20.3	in particular were found guilty of unlawful discrimination against Jewish people. While such a
1:26.0	verdict will not have surprised any listeners of
1:28.4	this show, the moral stain of Corbyn's leadership of the party throughout this period will never
1:34.2	fully be washed away. There are no apologies or public statements strong enough to repair that
1:39.6	level of damage. But there was no apology from Jeremy Corbyn following this verdict. Again, little surprise
1:46.7	from a man who had always denied responsibility for the problem, even past the point that some of his
1:52.3	own aides had started briefing journalists about his blind spot towards anti-Jewish racism. Instead,
1:58.9	Corby inflamed tensions further by doubling down, repeating his view that
2:03.6	the scale of unlawful discrimination that he had been found guilty of was exaggerated by
2:08.8	factional opponents, while explicitly refusing to accept all the findings of the statutory investigation.
2:15.7	Following this, Labour Party leader Sir Sarkir Stama, and Party
2:19.0	General Secretary David Evans, responded by suspending Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party membership
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