Labour Party suspends Jeremy Corbyn for not accepting report on anti-Semitism
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer says it is a ‘day of sham’ for the party, and apologised for the ‘pain and grief’ caused to Jewish people
29 October 2020 - 17:16
London — The UK’s opposition Labour Party suspended former leader Jeremy Corbyn after he failed to accept in full the findings of a report into anti-Semitism within the party. The Equality and Human Rights Commission said on Thursday that Labour breached the Equality Act through its handling of complaints of anti-Jewish prejudice while he was leader.
In his response to the report, Corbyn said he did “not accept all of its findings” and repeated his view that the scale of the problem had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons” by the media and his opponents. ..
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