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Former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn will be reinstated to the party following a dispute over anti-Semitism complaints, Sky News understands.
The Islington MP was suspended several weeks ago for your response to a bomb investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
It found that Labor had been responsible for “illegal acts of harassment and discrimination.”
In response, Mr. Corbyn claimed that “the scale of the problem” was “dramatically exaggerated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as much of the media.”
But within hours, he was suspended pending an investigation, a decision in which his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, said he was not involved but supported.
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‘I don’t want a split in the Labor Party’
On Tuesday, a five-member disciplinary panel of the Labor National Executive Committee met and decided that Corbyn should be reinstated.
The decision provoked the fury of the Jewish Labor Movement, which said it was “extraordinary.”
A spokesman said the party appeared to have “accelerated” Corbyn’s case and that the committee set up to rule on his future was “factionalized” in its support.
“Once again we find ourselves having to remind the Labor Party that Jeremy Corbyn is not a victim of Labor anti-Semitism, Jewish members are,” they added.
A group of Labor MPs warned Sir Keir that they could give up the whip if Corbyn re-represents Labor in parliament.
They are said to be furious and feel that the decision to lift their suspension will undermine the work done to rebuild the bridges with the Jewish community.
Sir Keir has also been accused of “failing to defend British Jews” by Conservative Party chair Amanda Milling.
“It is sending a message that the shameful anti-Semitism of recent years must be allowed to continue,” he said.
Previously, Mr. Corbyn had tried to “clear up any confusion about what I had meant” in an attempt to increase his chances of being reinstated to the Labor Party.
He explained in a statement: “To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither ‘exaggerated’ nor ‘exaggerated’.
“The point I wanted to make was that the vast majority of Labor Party members were and remain committed anti-racists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.”
Analysis: Starmer’s claim of ‘under new leadership’ seems empty now
By Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent
Sir Keir Starmer, and many central Labor MPs, will be furious at this decision.
Less than three weeks ago, the former leader was suspended for his defiant stance against the EHRC report that condemned the party for anti-Semitism.
Today’s controversial panel decision makes Corbyn’s suspension look like a weak slap on the wrist.
In addition to anger over the decision itself, there will be anger that reinstatement happened so quickly.
Sir Keir boasts that the Labor Party is “under new leadership.” Really? That statement seems empty now. Many dejected Labor MPs will despair because nothing has changed.
While Corbyn’s left allies, who have campaigned vigorously for his reinstatement, will publicly claim that justice has been served, they will privately laugh at him.
Corbyn’s apparent dismissal, just hours before the panel met, was condemned by Jewish groups as “a pathetic lack of apology” and “a desperate attempt to have his suspension lifted.”
Well, it worked.
But the decision will once again spark a major dispute in the party over anti-Semitism.
And Labor MPs will be distraught because just when the Tories were tearing each other apart over the Dominic Cummings / Lee Cain / Carrie Symonds soap opera, their party has soared again for anti-Semitism.
