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Jeremy Corbyn’s allies have reacted furiously to the decision to prevent him from returning as a Labor MP.
The former Labor leader was told Wednesday morning that the party whip will not be restored, despite the fact that his suspension from Labor was lifted by a disciplinary panel.
This means that Mr Corbyn He will not yet be officially a Labor MP, and will remain an independent MP in the House of Commons, despite the fact that he has been reinstated as a party member.
Current Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would continue to withhold Corbyn’s whip because his predecessor had “undermined” the party’s efforts to restore confidence in its ability to combat anti-Semitism.
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the decision was ‘just wrong’
It follows Corbyn’s response last month to a damning report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on Labor’s handling of complaints of anti-Semitism under his leadership.
Labor MPs supporting Corbyn have been angered by Sir Keir’s action.
John McDonnell, a longtime Corbyn ally and former shadow Chancellor of the Labor Party, said the decision to continue to hold back the whip was “simply wrong and will cause further division and disunity.”
“Jeremy went through the formal procedures and the decision was made correctly,” he added on Twitter.
“I appeal to everyone that it is surely time to move on and start working together to implement the EHRC.”
Diane Abbott, a former Labor shadow Home Secretary, tweeted: “Labor MPs lose the whip if they are automatically suspended from the party.
“De facto, you cannot be a Labor MP if you are not in the Labor Party.
“But taking the whip off @jeremycorbyn now raises serious questions about due process.”
Sir Keir Starmer said Corbyn had ‘undermined’ Labor efforts
And Richard Burgon, another who served in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, said: “Jeremy Corbyn has rightly been reinstated in the Labor Party.
“That decision must be respected and implemented throughout the Labor Party.
“Jeremy should get the whip back immediately. At a time of national crisis, the split in the Labor Party serves no one but the Conservative government.”
Meanwhile, the Momentum group, which supported Corbyn during his two Labor leadership campaigns, called Sir Keir’s decision “a joke.”
“A disciplinary panel found that Corbyn did not break the rules, so now Starmer is making it up as he goes along,” his official Twitter account tweeted.
Momentum also urged supporters to sign a petition, which soon attracted more than 1,500 signatures, calling for Corbyn to take back the whip.
Jon Lansman, the founder of Momentum, accused Sir Keir of having “driven a carriage and horses through the party’s disciplinary process, rendering it subservient to the parliamentary party and embedding ‘political interference.’
However, other Labor MPs voiced support for Sir Keir’s decision.
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Dame Margaret Hodge, with whom Sir Keir spoke on Tuesday evening, said: “As Corbyn has refused himself to accept the findings of the EHRC report, he refused to apologize for his actions and refused to take any responsibility. , holding the whip is the right decision. ” . “
Neil Coyle said continuing to withhold Corbyn’s whip was the “only option” until a new independent complaint process was established.
The chairwoman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, said that the Labor disciplinary process “was clearly not yet fit for purpose”, but Sir Keir had “made the appropriate leadership decision not to return the whip to Jeremy Corbyn “.
Sir Keir has left the door open for Corbyn to rejoin the Parliamentary Labor Party saying the situation will remain “under review.”
But his spokesman did not want to detail any of the steps necessary for him to rejoin.
“I’m not going to pre-empt any of that,” the spokesperson said, when asked if a clear retraction and an apology from Corbyn would suffice.
