Corbyn’s team believes the party’s compliance committee makes arbitrary decisions, often on political grounds, some of which could breach members’ human rights.
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But Ian McNichol has now publicly hit out at Mr Corbyn, arguing that the ultimate decision lay with the party’s elected ruling national executive committee.
In his statement, Draper, whose union has almost 20,000 members, said he had received an email from the party on Tuesday saying he was suspended.
Draper said, “The only explanation I have been given is that this is something to do with an unidentified tweet I have posted”.
Lookers on may have already got the impression that many Labour members and supporters made their minds up a long time ago about which way to vote, and that not much is likely to change over the next few days.
The backing of Jeremy Corbyn was agreed at a meeting earlier this month, with the TUC saying it believes he has reinvigorated the Labour Party with policies consistent with those of the trade union movement. “The conduct of this election must be fair and even-handed”.
Jeremy Corbyn has voiced concern that supporters have been “unfairly removed” from voting in the Labour leadership election.
A LABOUR government would reverse the Tory cuts to arts funding by increasing tax on the top 0.3 per cent of earners, Jeremy Corbyn will announce today.
The Labour leader was on the campaign trail in Glasgow yesterday, where he officially ruled out any formal alliance with the SNP because the nationalists “come from different traditions”.
Lord Sainsbury, a science minister in the upper house under Tony Blair, released a statement saying both donations had been meant to fund the pro-remain Britain Stronger in Europe campaign before the European Union referendum in June.
Mr Corbyn said “a number of people” had contacted him and he had sent a list of names to the party’s general secretary.
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With the backdrop of the global Edinburgh arts festival, the party leader launched his culture policy for government, which includes a pledge to “reverse Tory real terms cuts to arts expenditure and restore grant in aid funding of the Arts Council” working within Labour’s so-called fiscal crediblity rule, which aims to balance day-to-day spending with the amount raised in taxes.
