A lack of trust lies at the heart of this crisis, with all sides believing political interference has taken place
In classic Labour fashion, the party has taken the worst-of-all-worlds route over Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension. Though Corbyn has been readmitted to the party, less than three weeks after he was suspended over his response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission report on antisemitism, Keir Starmer has refused to restore the whip – meaning Corbyn will still not officially be a Labour MP.
Members on the left now see the party leadership as unjustly anti-Corbyn, while those who had taken courage from Starmer’s initial actions view this decision as disappointingly weak. The proceedings have done nothing to restore trust in the party’s disciplinary system, nor do they seem to have complied with the recommendations of the report that set off this chain of events in the first place.
