Revealed: Labour’s leaked anti-Semitism guidelines

Labour’s new code of conduct would not allow the return of Ken Livingstone, according to an internal party document seen by Coffee House. A briefing note sent to Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs addresses the case of the former London mayor, who resigned from the party two years after he was suspended for claiming that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism before he ‘went mad and ending up killing six million Jews’. The note says: 

‘So the Code wouldn’t pave the way for Ken Livingstone’s return to the Party?

‘Not at all. The Code is explicitly clear that Hitler, Nazi and Holocaust distortions and comparisons carry a strong risk of being found to be prejudicial or grossly detrimental to the Party, and therefore breach Party rules, which would apply to Ken Livingstone’s comments. However, he is no longer a member of the Party.’

Elsewhere, the document supplies Labour representatives with soundbite responses to criticism of the party‘s failure to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti–Semitism.