Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning was rocked by tensions over Labour’s continued failure to deal with its antisemitism problem, the JC has learned.
Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer insisted the party’s frontbench team should take greater responsibility for tackling the issue and made a point of asking for further discussion from others in the room.
Sources confirmed that Shadow Attorney General Baroness Chakrabarti looked “visibly distressed” as the effectiveness of her 2016 report into Labour’s antisemitism problem was questioned.
The JC has learned that Baroness Chakrabarti raised the party’s continued failure to deal with Ken Livingstone on four occasions during the meeting at Westminster. Mr Livingstone is currently suspended from the party after claiming that Hitler backed Zionism.
