Owen Jones • Mar 21, 2023 After the leaked Labour report revealed damning truths about the behaviour of the party’s Right, Keir Starmer commissioned leading barrister Martin Forde to conduct a report. Some – myself included – feared a whitewash: but the conclusions were damning, including on factionalism and perceptions of a hierarchy of racism. But Labour have almost entirely failed to engage with Forde over his report – and now he’s broken his silence. We speak to Richard Sanders – one of the makers of Al Jazeera’s ‘Labour Files’ – and award winning investigative journalist Peter Oborne.

Documents reveal discrimination and racism in UK Labour Party

Al Jazeera reveals how Labour created a hierarchy of racism that discriminated against Black, Asian and Muslim members.

By Al Jazeera Investigative Unit

Published On 29 Sep 2022 (aljazeera.com)

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) reveals how a British political party that claims to embrace progressive values created a hierarchy of racism that discriminated against its Black, Asian and Muslim members. Interviews, internal documents and social media messages shared by the most senior staff in The United Kingdom’s Labour Party betrayed a racist culture where abuse was aimed at their own colleagues, councillors and political leaders.

The Labour Files, an I-Unit investigation based on 500 gigabytes of documents, emails, video and audio files from the Labour Party dating from 1998 to 2021, exposes how the party’s campaign to present a tough image on anti-Semitism, while ignoring other forms of discrimination, drove many staff to resign.