Equality and Human Rights Commission report is set to recommend an independent complaints system

Other people anticipating the report include Owen Jones, the Guardian columnist and Labour campaigner, who tweets:

Here’s what I’m going to do before commenting on the EHRC report: read it in full and listen to the thoughts of a range of Jewish voices.

Solidarity with Jewish people of different political perspectives, for whom today will be full of stress and emotion.

Labour’s day of reckoning over antisemitism is approaching fast, with the publication sometime early next year of the EHRC report. We will leave it to them to decide whether the Labour Party is institutionally antisemitic, but the very fact that the party is being investigated, with the only other party ever having been investigated being the BNP, should be shame enough.

Dame Louise Ellman, the former MP who quit Labour over Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of anti-Semitism, said this morning that she wants the former party leadership to be “made irrelevant”.

Ahead of the publication of the EHRC report into the party, she told Radio 4’s Today programme that Labour is “not there yet” under new leader Sir Keir Starmer.

I’ve written about my experiences in the Times today. Labour must do more https://t.co/sXcA1cqK6e

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