The human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti today rejected any suggestion that she had been offered a peerage by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn before the completion of her report on antisemitism and racism in the party.
Her acceptance of the honour had been widely condemned by Jewish organisations as compromising the independence of her inquiry.
But on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 this morning, when asked whether there had been any discussion about the Lords before the report was out, she replied “Jeremy Corbyn is not a corrupt man and I am not a corrupt woman. I stand by the report. There was nothing remotely transactional about this.”
She said the peerage had come “after Brexit, after the report” in the resignation honours.
