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LABOUR PARTY UNREST OVER NEW APPOINTMENT

BY ADAM MOSES

Having taking over Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) this week, the “Jeremy Corbyn wing” wasted no time ousting the longstanding chair of the Disputes Sub-Committee, Ann Black and replaced her with the veteran left-winger Christine Shawcroft. In a vote 22 to 15, the powerful Momentum-backed members of the NEC sent Ms Black packing because she was not “left-wing enough” for the Momentum faction even though she had been in the role for several years. One NEC source told this journalist, “It was unprecedented for the left to put up a candidate against an experienced chair of the Disputes Panel, which is supposed to be a neutral body.” The source went on to say, “This move will take us back to party dis-unity and members will

no longer have faith in the NEC to rule fairly on cases.” Christine Shawcroft, who was herself suspended from the party for supporting the disgraced former mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, where she previously led the local Labour group, will now be responsible for the body that decides whether to investigate sexist, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic abuse and other disciplinary cases. The disputes committee immediately went into action after Shawcroft was elected, holding a lengthy meeting and voting on various allegations of misconduct by Labour members. The object was to decide whether to adopt or reject recommendations made by party officials. This journalist has learned that three cases of alleged anti-Semitism were considered. In the first, the committee decided not to follow the recommendation of officers to refer

the case to the National Constitutional Committee (NCC) for further investigation. Instead, a formal warning and anti-racism training were decided upon. In another case, there was a discussion about whether the use of the word ‘Yid’ was a term of anti-Semitic abuse. The defendant had claimed there was nothing “intrinsically offensive” about the term and at least one member of the NEC agreed. The third case was a formal investigation into alleged racism, bullying and harassment in Tower Hamlets that was deferred until March - a decision that was personally made by Shawcroft. A majority of the committee disagreed, with one NEC member pointing out Shawcroft’s links to the last case. But the committee lacked the two-thirds majority needed to

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