Labour Against Antisemitism Statement on Labour Party's apology to whistleblowers

After a lengthy battle and court case the Labour Party has finally reached an agreement to apologise and pay reparations for the harm done to them.

The Guardian reported:

Labour conceded it had made defamatory and false allegations against the litigants in the light of their interview with the Panorama programme Is Labour Antisemitic?, broadcast last July.

It agreed to retract and withdraw accusations that the whistleblowers were motivated by their opposition to the party’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn and had “political axes to grind” and its accusation that Ware had conducted a “deliberate and malicious misrepresentations designed to mislead the public”.

In a four-page agreement statement made in relation to the former staff’s libel action read out in court 37 of the high court, it said: “The Labour party is here today to publicly set the record straight, and to apologise to the claimants for the distress and embarrassment that it has caused them.”

Fiona Sharpe, spokesman for Labour Against Antisemitism, said:

“The Labour Party’s campaign to undermine the BBC Panorama documentary ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ was, in our view, an attempt to dismiss evidence of institutional anti-Jewish racism in the party.


It is only right that Labour has finally apologised to those involved in the programme, and especially to the seven whistleblowers who have reportedly faced months of abuse leading to emotional and mental distress.
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We hope that this indicates that the Labour Party is now willing to admit the scale of harm done in recent years and months and will quickly settle all other outstanding cases satisfactorily.”