Seamus Milne, seen with Jeremy Corbyn in 2016, was among the five against whom the Labor Party filed a counterclaim. Photo: Ben Cawthra/LNP
Labour has dropped legal action against five former staffers, including Seamus Milne, Jeremy Corbyn's former spin doctor, over the leak of a report on antisemitism.
Nine whistleblowers have filed a claim against LDL. party after an unredacted 850-page report intended to be submitted to an equality watchdog was made public.
But the Labor Party has defended the claim and counter-claimed the five people they claim leaked the report, including Milne and Carey Murphy, two of the most senior advisers to Corbyn, the party's former leader.
Labor Party officials accused the quintet of «conspiring to use illicit means» to publish the report in an attempt to damage Sir Keir Starmer after he became leader — a charge all five have denied.
Carter Ruck, who has been appointed by the five to defend them in court, said in a statement on Thursday: “The party ceases its claims against Carey Murphy, Seamus Milne, Georgie Robertson, Harry Hayball and Laura Murray under injunction.” to the cost basis. The five welcomed the settlement of the claims.»
The Telegraph previously reported that the Labor Party risks losing £5 million in its election budget if it loses claims related to allegations of antisemitism.
' ; War of the Left»
Senior Labor Party figures said on Thursday that the dismissal of the legal challenge represented another example of destructive factionalism under Sir Keir's leadership.
Mish Rahman, a member of the party's ruling National Executive Committee, said: «Like his clumsy attacks on Diane Abbott and other left-wing women of colour, this senseless and vindictive failed trial is yet another example of Starmer allowing his bullies to get carried away with his war on the left.» when it is clearly not in the party's electoral or financial interests.»
One Labor MP and former shadow cabinet minister condemned the decision to nominate Alex Barros Curtis, Labor's executive director of legal affairs since May 2020, as a candidate in the upcoming general elections.
“The exit of Alex Barros Curtis to the safe seat of the Labor Party is a disgrace, now we know what he is responsible for,” the MP said. “This Starmer appointee spent millions of pounds of Labor Party money dragging former party employees through the courts for four years in pursuit of a senseless and failed political vendetta.”
James Schneider, co-founder of Momentum and former Corbyn adviser media, said: “The case has cost Labor millions of pounds and left five former party staffers in brutal legal limbo. This should under no circumstances be allowed.”
Anti-Semitism as a “factional weapon.”
Martin Ford, the leading lawyer who advised on Windrush's compensation, was tasked with investigating the leak of the 850th sum. page of a document in April 2020, the month Sir Keir became Labor leader.
Mr Ford's report, published two years later, said both Mr Corbyn's left-wing supporters and Blair's supporters those working against him used anti-Semitism as a “factional weapon” instead of addressing the problem.
It found Mr Corbyn had been “particularly silent” as his supporters had “adopted a stance of denial and conspiracy theories” about antisemitism in the Labor Party, while some of his “opponents” within the party “were considering the issue… as a means of attacking him.»
The report also said that criticism of Ms Abbott, the former shadow home secretary, by Labor Party centrists amounted to «an expression of visceral disgust, conscious or otherwise in a way that draws on racist tropes.»
The document made 165 recommendations to combat various forms of discrimination within the Labor Party, and the party confirmed that 154 of these had been introduced this year.
Nine people who sued the Labor Party after being named as plaintiffs in the leaked report had their case dismissed in September. It is unclear whether an out-of-court settlement has been reached.
Labour has been contacted for comment.
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