A FORMER Labour Party official who quit his role over the leadership’s “gag order” on discussing Gaza was indicative of Keir Starmer’s fear…
Party official who quit his role over the leadership’s “gag order” on discussing Gaza was indicative of Keir Starmer’s fear of democracy.
Duffy remains a member of Labour which he re-joined in 2015 and was previously a member between 1983 and 1999, when he quit because he left the country. Party spin doctors have attempted to walk back comments he made on LBC earlier this week, in which he appeared to suggest Israel had the right to cut off water and the supply of electricity to Gaza by saying he was answering another question about the country’s right to defend itself.He said: “The motion and the instruction not to debate it is the absolute key.
He said the motion had been put on the agenda – which he said is viewable on Labour’s internal systems by party headquarters – in “good faith".Duffy added: “After that we received an email – not just us, all CLPs – received an email from David Evans saying a number of things. The first was advising members not to attend any rallies or marches on the Palestine situation, saying if they were going to do that, they were not to take any party banners along to them.
“Now that may or may not be true but there’s been plenty of opportunity to rectify that and I haven’t seen that, so that’s certainly a part of it.
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