We welcome the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission report

Thursday, 5th November 2020

• AS members of Holborn & St Pancras Labour Party we welcome the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission report.

We stand in solidarity with Jewish members over the party’s collective failure on anti-Semitism.

We are heartened to see our party’s leadership fully commit to implementing the report’s recommendations. But most of all we are proud that they apologised unreservedly to our Jewish members for the immense hurt caused.

Although hard to read, this report is – as Sir Keir Starmer rightly put it – a point of shame for our party.

We recognise that the failings within Labour have been an issue of culture as well as procedure and that the report lays upon Labour a legal duty to act to root out every vestige of this curse.

As Sir Keir has made clear, anyone who minimises or dismisses the problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is part of the problem and should have no role within it.

We welcome his leadership on this issue and are committed to making the Labour Party a safe space for Jewish people.

SAGAL ABDI-WALI (Chair of Holborn & St Pancras CLP), PATRICK ALLEN, HILARY BARNARD, GILLIAN BLACK, JOSEPHINE BURNS, SUE CHANTRELL, SARAH GRACE CLARK, MATT COOPER, DANIEL COUSINS, PENNY DAVID, JULIA FABRICIUS, JOEL FENSTER, REBECCA FILER, PAUL FISHER, DR PATRICK FRENCH, EDMUND FRONDIGOUN, ALISTAIR GEAR, SUSIE GILBERT, TERRY GILBERT, LLOYD HATTON, JAMES HEMSLEY, GEORGIA KAUFMANN, DEIRDRE KRYMER, MARK KRYMER, ROBERT LATHAM, ANTHONY LEAHY, CLLR OLIVER LEWIS, HEATHER MACKAY, MARTIN PLAUT, JENNY ROSSITER, SARAH SACKMAN, JANE STEEDMAN, GLENYS THORNTON, SARAH TUCKMAN, MICHAEL WAY, GILES WRIGHT

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