YOUNG LABOUR CHAIR NOMINEE BREAKS RANK AND CALLS OUT STARMER

By Tom Guyton-Day

Source: https://twitter.com/JessicaLBarnard/status/1321929291978911749?s=20

​The UK's human rights watchdog says Labour broke law by failing to stamp out anti-Jewish racism in its ranks when Mr Corbyn was leader.
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Jess Barnard, an up and coming member of the Labour Party with eyes on becoming an MP and currently neck and neck to win the Young Labour Chair elections, suggested that "its a failure of his [Starmer] commitment to ensure that factionalism plays no role in tackling racism in our party."
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Barnard suggested the Party should be looking to unify rather than divide and that this movement, to suspend Jeremy Corbyn MP, distracts from the realities of the need to address all forms of racism within the Party.
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There has been growing concern at the continued plague of anti-semitic comments that have been made during the Young Labour elections - with one candidate already having withdrawn from the race. One candidate suggested, a high up Nazi was good looking in a Facebook comment.

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Source: https://twitter.com/JessicaLBarnard/status/1321929293316980736?s=20

Jess Barnard later tweeted her full support to members of the Jewish community (see above) and urged the Labour Party to adopt the recommendations of the ECHR but to also avoid political decisions. 
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The unprecedented move by Sir Kier Starmer to suspend Jeremy Corbyn MP was defended by Sir Kier as the "right thing to do".

However, the former shadow chancellor, John McDonnell MP (and close ally of Mr Corbyn) suggested the Party was instead "drifting towards a hell of a row over use of language, misinterpretation, followed by overreaction".