Mr Corbyn acknowledged that concerns around anti-Semitism in Labour were not exaggerated in a statement ahead of the meeting
Labour’s civil war over the party’s handling of anti-Semitism erupted last night after ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn was reinstated as an MP just weeks after being suspended for downplaying the extent of anti-Jewish racism.
But on Tuesday a panel of Labour’s National Executive Committee lifted his suspension and restored the whip.
Though The Mirror understands that the former Labour leader is yet to receive any notification of any conditions attached to him being reinstated.
In a statement early on Tuesday, Mr Cobyn tried to clarify the comments which saw him suspended last month in the wake of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s damning report into anti-Semitism in the party during his leadership.
Mr Corbyn acknowledged that concerns around anti-Semitism in Labour were not “exaggerated”, weeks after he was suspended for saying the problem was “dramatically overstated”.
They said: “Keir Starmer couldn’t look more out of control if he tried – if winning control of your party is the first test on the road to Downing Street then we haven’t even left the house yet.”
Mr Corbyn’s suspension came after the human rights watchdog ruled that Labour broke equality law during his leadership over its handling of complaints of anti-Semitism.
Party general secretary David Evans did not suspend Mr Corbyn over the report, but his response to it.
Mr Corbyn had said that while “one anti-Semite is one too many” the “scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media”.
