Sir Keir Starmer

• AS Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer worked closely with the police in prosecuting and convicting people, overwhelmingly working class and disproportionately people of colour.

As he said recently, “Nobody should be saying anything about defunding the police… I’ve worked with police forces across England and Wales bringing thousands of people to court, so my support for the police is very strong”.

While failing to hold the police accountable for deaths in police custody, he encouraged longer and tougher sentences for “benefit fraud”, and ordered the fast-track extradition of Julian Assange, who is being persecuted for revealing US war crimes overwhelmingly against people of colour.

As leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir took no immediate action against HQ staff members whose racism, sexism, and ableism was exposed in the leaked report on anti-Semitism in the party.

He reversed conference policy on Kashmir, putting Muslim people squarely in the firing line in India, and fired Rebecca Long-Bailey for anti-Semitism for retweeting information about violence by the state of Israel.

He equates attacks on the state with attacks on Jewish people in general – classic anti-Semitism.

He downplayed the international Black Lives Matter movement as “a moment”, labelling as “nonsense” demands to defund the police in favour of community investment.

Sir Keir’s statement that he will take “unconscious bias” training, is both admission and misdirection: he makes racism a personal psychological problem and not a systemic social disaster. His stance has been conscious and has no place in an anti-racist party.

He has brought the Labour Party into disrepute with its most loyal supporters and voters, working-class BAME communities.

At its July meeting, Momentum Camden passed a resolution calling on the national executive committee of the Labour Party to pass a vote of no confidence in Sir Keir Starmer.

SAM WEINSTEIN
Secretary
Momentum Camden, NW6