Jennie Formby, Labour’s new general secretary, has revealed her office has seconded a team of lawyers to start work “immediately” in an attempt to deal with the huge backlog of alleged antisemitism disciplinary cases within the party.
In her first speech to the Parliamentary Labour Party, Ms Formby also revealed Labour had advertised for “in-house general counsel, who will advise on disciplinary matters and improvements to our processes”.
In a further attempt to show that Labour is serious about tackling the issue of anti-Jewish conduct, she also revealed the party’s ruling body had staged its first working group meeting on the issue – and that Baroness Chakrabarti had accepted an invitation to join the NEC group.
“I will be recommending to the working group that we learn from the improved processes for dealing with sexual harassment cases,” wrote Ms Formby.
