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Len McCluskey bemoans ‘unjust’ suspension

Unite union leader hits out at the decision to suspend his close ally branding it “unjust”.

The trade union boss, who caused outrage in 2017 when he branded Labour antisemitism claims “mood music” to criticise Jeremy Corbyn, made his remarks after the the former Labour leader was suspended for his reaction to the release of  the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report on antisemitism.

The Unite chief said it “wrong what happened, but now is the time for some calmness so we can see if we can resolve this.”

He said yesterday, when the EHRC report was released “should have been about moving on from antisemitism and embracing” what it said “which Keir did.”

“Unfortunately now we’ve all been knocked off the rails a little bit by Jeremy’s suspension.

It was unjust – and hopefully with discussions that can take place we can resolve this and we can move on.”

Asked if it will divide the party, he says he hopes the issue can be resolved, and his message to “literally hundreds-of-thousands of our members who are already expressing their anger, is to stay in the party. We need the party to be united. Working people out there need us..”

McCluskey was particularly critical of Labour’s payout to whistleblowers over the party’s handling of antisemitism under Corbyn. “I think funding arrangements is undoubtedly an issue that may come up,” Mr McCluskey added in an interview with BBC Newsnight.