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So position labor party, hundreds of thousands of internal documents, emails, and social media messages have been revealed and one of the biggest leeks in british political history. The 1st of a 3 part series reveals how labors own bureaucrats undermined former liter jeremy kobus who was in charge from 2015 to 2020. His father left a socialist policies, galvanized Young Voters Party membership doubled, but the leak documents a show Party Managers silencing, discrediting and expelling colbin supporters. Some former members spoke to out. There is investigative unit, revealing more of labors inner workings, saying, who could be a candidate saying, who could be a member. Then you control a body politic of one of the major parties in this country. And i found that is on democratic blakely to coo, by cooper people, to take over one of the Major Political parties in britain. The files obtained biology 0 contain labors disciplinary records from 1998 to 2021. They show how several of corbin supporters were smeared by fellow Party Members and supporters where the false accusations of abusive behavior, which included homophobia and anti semitism with the intention to have them either suspended or expelled. And in 2019 corbin resigned. His leader of the party lost the general election. Now he was eventually replaced by care stomach britons, former director of public prosecutions. The documentaries being released as labor holds its annual conference, livable from sunday opinion polls suggest the party could win a general election against the governing conservative labor. Nps had been calling for an early vote ever since. Less trust took over from Boris Johnson as party leader and Prime Minister earlier this month. Ah, lets bring our guests in london, alex nuns, a former speech writer for jeremy colbin in gauze. Go john curtis, professor of politics at the university of strathclyde and also in london, jonathan, less political commentator and Deputy Director of the think tank british influence. Welcome to the program. Id like to begin in london with alex nuns. I 1st saw that youre actually in this documentary eve, so youve now finally seen all of it. It must be bittersweet on the one hand vindication that you were right. But on the other hand, actually disappointment that it got at this stage. I will certainly ask people who work for jericho been or even people who are just supportive of them and part of is movement. We knew all along that this kind of internal sabotage was happening. And essentially what, what was occurring was a civil war within the labor party where the existing established party establishment, the staff, and the patients are working as hard as they could to, for the chances of the left wing in the form of german corbins leadership. To, to make its case to the lecture and to advance. And so, so yes, well know. But in britain especially, theres been one sided Media Coverage of this situation where everything was named on the left and the right where never criticized so in your right is big street in the sense that finally some light has been shown on, on what actually happened jonathan list and also in london, it must be disappointing view as well. But i mean this is this just the internal workings of the labor party that have just been laid bare or is it legal . Thats a good question. Obviously, the labor party cannot be separated from its internal mechanisms, and thats a long history in the labor party, out of the kind of civil war between the left in the rights where each faction trying to wrest control party. And so yes is disappointing and it doesnt bode well for a potential future governance. But i suppose that the key point is the divided parties dont win elections. I doesnt make any sense to the party to be fighting a battle against the left. Now, i just as a know, just as though the right party was fighting the left while the left was actually in, in power in the night party. And i think that the really felicia hosted to look at the case. The public is not going to be attracted by party, which is focusing more on kind of purging, one wing of itself than actually speaking to the country. Im going to bring in a, bring back alex, hey alex, in london as well. Alex, i have heard that. Busy actually this needs to be looked at by the leadership. Weve been actually speaking to members of my team and i of members of the low party all day to try and get their sense of this. And the overwhelming senses just as we were about to become electable, just as things were turning a corner. Were back here, but the point is, this didnt happen overnight. This is systemic within the labor party, these documents go back to 1998. Theres always been a problem. Well thats to some extent, but the problem is certainly intensified to intensify when Jeremy Corbin became a leader of the labor party thats when for the rights of the labor party, the left became an existential threat. Its kind of self image rather than just an annoying in a relative of that. But so so definitely became more intention. Corbin period. But i think its wrong to just say, why can you leave it still behind you . Why is it still is in parting because its really a continuation of the same project is happening now. And jerry, corbins leadership was sabotaged internally and then the same people in some instances, but certainly in the same fashion are essentially the people who surround kids, darma who run the labor party right now. And what theyve done now theyve got in a position of power is theyve decided to jump in just a launch and allow her to be less than trying you know, like suspend, they suspended the former leader, Jeremy Corbin, they fixed plenty of members on really g, v s grounds, and this just goes on and on and on. And it seems to be the leadership only kind of reflex is to attack its left wing and it kind of a really bad prestige of the attorney blaze. So, so this is, is a problem for storm in a sense that hes not going to have a united Party Carriers on down that truck. John curtis in glasgow. Youve heard what both i guess of had to say about this. Dr. Rich about the allegations are within documentary, but do ordinary people care, your professor politics are upholstered to ordinary people. Care about this kind of internal fighting for the most part. No, but its certainly correct to say docs and people are less likely to vote for parties that are internally divided in, in a sense. One of the advantages the labor party has at the moment is that is pretty care that the conservatives are divided. That is, the perception republic hobbled them. Ah, it was something that was in the end, particularly fuel by party gates. And the way in the end was johnsons government effectively collapse at the beginning of july. Ah, this year, ah, as compared with that much. Ah, the current arguments about the past in so i did a report to you on the way in which jeremy kobus was treated certainly will not have the st. The residence of voters ah, not least on faith because whatever his merits. Although Jeremy Corbin, so if i bought the 2017 general election in the end im, he wasnt able to persuade the electric that he was somebody that they wanted to seem as Prime Minister in to that extent at least at the arguments about Jeremy Colburn all and afraid to some degree, yesterdays news, as far as most of the public are concerned, but it does have an effect i want to bring in jonathan les, hey, it does have effect on peoples perceptions clearly of the labor party. More importantly though, it is a problem for k selma who now has to publicly and the conferences on sundays, gonna publicly address all of this and try and united policy. Can he do that . Im not sure that he does have to address it to you on his and i mean, obviously john miss have to ask her about it and maybe some will. But i think that he will stay the conversation very rapidly away from it. And you know, as much as john was saying a 2nd ago to say this is yesterdays knees and points out. Thats the ultimate version. On jamie corbin, sally was passed by the rich people in 2019 oversee. As youre saying was the health im by these are factions in the labor party and it was helped by the internal sabotaged. And that looks to have taken place with the rich people did not want jeremy coven fundamentally in, wont about the lay parts is offering and for a number of reasons. In 2019, i space donna will will make that point and steer it very rapidly away from that to look at the time dividing lines. And i think the, the point is that his job has actually become a lot easier in the last couple of weeks. Because when johnston was prime, minister, and johnson was also very unpopular at the end, the storms, main lines of attack against johnson, the 1st alone competence, and then on character that now trust has become Prime Minister less trust and is completely transformed. The tory party agenda to make fall more for clear lines, dividing lines, territories and labor. Such a similar in a sense. Now because of the labor party into a party by damage to the right. So we have a similar kind of gap between the 2 parties that we had a few years ago, and ill make it thought easier to stammer because now he has a political dividing line. And he can talk much more about policies. And even though labor is to the right now, its still much harder to the left. The tory party handle is trust. I think the public will be more prepared to get him for that. I think actually alex in london as well. Jonathan, this is actually for our strategic papoulias, unintentionally, but its a decent strategy. Lets just avoid that. Lets focus on the tory party. Lets forget any internal labor party workings, but there are going to be a lot of angry labor Party Members sent was weve spoken to who want a clean house. They want reform thats going to have an impact. Well, yeah, there will be, but i think that the conference that im going to keep it the gender if they can. I mean, i agree, it publicly like about to saying this is all in the past and lets move forward and so on and so forth. And, but actually it does still present practical problems, the kids and i also agree that the conservatives are trying to make it as easy as possible to stop by moving. But i think youre trying to re run, you know, factories from the eightys, which gives labor a lot space. But the trouble for star practically is that a lot of like Party Membership, disaffected 3rd Party Members have left on the storm. Ive resigned a membership or been kicked out. Those tend to be the people who go around and deliver leaflets and knock on doors and all that kind of thing. The part is really in a financial situation because of loss. Membership money from all the ex members also because hes got a kind of touchy relationship with the trade union. So traditionally, the biggest funds of labor who are basically saying, you know, when were going to withheld our money, and there are the big rich donors coming back in to find the party they were in the tiny blair. So its not just a political problem. The style where i agree, conservative made it much easier for him and it would otherwise have been it for something had been in place and still successfully was previously. But he saw some practical problem about the running of the party and the makeup of the party. And the morality junko says it seems to be that the natural order of things in britain is either sent to right or center left. Thats kind of where we been mostly, although the wrong extremes of that when the factory isnt, as we just mentioned. And perhaps though, even with less trust. But Jeremy Corbin was always going to be on electable. So people working within his own party to actually try and bring him down. Were actually trying to do the party a favor. Thats one spend right there. Well, that certainly will be that if there is who were a engaged in trying to bring him down. Although i think in truth, you know, we should remember that, i mean, he sat quite remarkably um, journey colbin in the 2017 election is probably the 1st party leader that im aware of. Who, having being unpopular with the public, actually misty, considerably improve his popularity during that lecture. His problem, of course, in the end, is that what he wasnt able to do was to provide his party with adequately clear direction on the issue of rexs in the 2019 journal. Actually in contrast, force, johnson didnt provide his party with a very clear directional not issue. And therefore, as a result, the limitations of Jeremy Corbins abilities as a leader ah, were exemplified and also because to some degree, some of the things that made some traditional they were voters unhappy about to the liberal party in about germany. Colbert tied in with their go, the boys socially conservative views that lead them to vote. That them to vote late. Sorry, not to that extent. At least a jamie corbin, to some degree, had the difficulty of being a party later at a particularly. I difficult off, but again he could. Now once you bear in mind though its worth bearing in mind, this will be the 1st Labor Party Conference since 2017. Since Jeffrey Cockburn did roughly by the 27th election, the labor party has come together for its annual conference when its actually been a head in the opinion polls. And is one thing that we do know about pot leadership is the Party Leaders tend to be relatively strong when that part is doing one the poll and tend to be in the polls. And do i tend to be rationally weak when they are, converse is true. So probably, you know, despite all the matchings, obasi kissella just by the thought is perfectly clear. While he is somebody whom the public can imagine his Prime Minister, they dont necessarily have and says the us in the for, in the way, for example, certainly a section of the lecture had for jeremy kobus are not a majority. Again, despite dot, because now labor does enjoy chorus has done too late. There isnt much sign of a bounce for the new Prime Minister list trust. He will actually, in some sense is had moral authority. I suspect on at this conference they, he has done it to the previous ones that hes been presiding of his liter. Oh, jonathan, this is very interesting point is that he got a man that people can imagine being prime is the kissed alma, but hes also got a party that hes got to bring together somehow. And that is now has to be the focus. All of this comes out, its going to give people a talking point. This is the next year for him. Surely this is a distraction thats going to take. It is going to consume the labor pot in case thomas leadership the next year. At least i really dont think itll be that much destruction. The simple reason, as weve already mentioned that i think the media has moved on the media, which was very hostile to cooper anyway. And so might well have a look at some of the moves that were made against him. Because even on the evening, most of century left, we newspapers. That wasnt a great loss to call in and the bridge media as you know. And i think that that was the political weather has changed so much as you know. So i just mentioned the 2nd guy that a lot of the people who wavering about labor and saying, well, its no longer the case that anyway, the government is better than any concept of government. And now on the trus, a hops being galvanized to kind of come back to the later fold. Just because what trust is, is proposing is so radical. And im so on cold food. So started on wont say by the bridge people you havent had any say in it. And i think that that has really made is alex, to say not really made storms of a lot easier. I dont mean that this kind of disaffection becomes much less of a political issue. When was a lot of the labor members who might be furious with him. I might also be very resentful about the thought that he broke so many of his leadership ledges in 2021 years campaigns to come labor leader and then kind of dates. Almost all of those pledges. They might ronnie to him because they know that what hes offering is a lot better. Not radical, nothing like is progresses will call them, is offering, but much better than anything that could come from this trust. Alex, the bottom line still remains though surely the, this was a democratically elected leader that was brought down by an elected people the most ive never even heard of that. And that has to make head waves. Well thing the key point is in all of this, is that so you know, in this civil war, within the labor party, one side, jeremy calling side had democratic legitimacy. He was elected with large majorities within the party. The other side were using kind of regard actions, bureaucratic maneuvers behind the scenes to for that democratic mandate, even though they were mutually paid to carry it out. So. So yes, of this, i think, i mean stories in the british context. You know, the british news agenda moves on very quickly. People say, well thats old news. But then there was something quite profound that happened in the labor party between 20152900. Something unprecedented really. Which is that an elected leadership was sabotaged from within by its own bias on side. And obviously there was, there were other forces that are acting against, like about it, you know, the media hostile mentioned. And as john said, this was an extremely difficult time with proxy, which i think is the main reason for the 2019 General Electric is out. Which is essentially a kind of a brack election. Where 2017, you know, like the meditatively, well. So there were all these other factors, of course, but it is the very least a fascinating case study of what can happen in a Political Party when you have this kind of internal sabotaging is 10 to the radio. The leadership because the leadership is considered to left wing by the people who previously randall and john curtis, this is the stuff of fiction that was very famous film called a very british qu, which is almost exactly what were talking about now. It was just run by the british establishment to see this play out. In reality, i just see all laid bare that must have come as a, as a shock to you, or is this just part and parcel of the you politics that we all accept . Well, i think to be honest, i may be boss johnson, jeremy coven should get together and started club for to post leaders at the end of the day. Leaders who are we end up being regarded by their party or by significant section of the policy as a liability to them, are always at risk of being overturned irrespective of how straw . Well they did a general election and kept bars. Johnsons grace lawyer, its part of how well they didnt leadership election in the case of jeremy coleman. At the end of the day, both gentlemen faced the problem visa v. That parties that a significant section of the, of that party did not believe that they were in us it. And when that was the case, yes, unsurprisingly, people move to god. And the truth is thats just a part of what politics is about. Party leaders, one of that constant jobs they have to do is to maintain the confidence of their party if they dont have the comments of the party, they are always potentially vulnerable. Im jonathan las. Um its often been said of the Republican Party in the u. S. They actually should be 6 different parties because of the internal divisions. Weve been talking a lot with all i guess about the idea that this is the hard left. This is todd, right. This is big, the wood divisions within the labor party itself. Is it time to actually split the labor party because this doesnt seem to be doing les potty any favors to having these internal, almost constant in fighting. The bottom line is that the layer party is the only vehicle for progressive governments in the united kingdom. And that is a result of our natural system. First pass the pace. I wish requires a 5050 percent like not even that you sent a majority wrong in each constituency the has no, you can proportionality. They whatsoever. If he had a proposal representation system, then i agree that will be very good grounds to state the labor party it into 2 different shades of left wing opinion and then the public to decide which one of those shades that wanted. And then youd have a full coalition between the different factions to for when you government that is extremely normal around the world. We dont have that system until we do, then there is no option, but the lay party to group together. Because if it doesnt, if thats a splintering, a slate. And we have seen that lay party who oversee in might say, to run a when several on high profile and peace, there to wait for the social democratic party, which then i measure the liberals and also to less extent in 2019 west, disaffected and piece broke off and formed the change e k policy, which wasnt any successful you have had, you have had breakthrough a break ups and not always benefits. The conservative policy, which is managed to say extremely united and a very successful writing force. It doesnt have any rivals on the right lay part is always going to have royals on the left, right, such as the liberal democrats, depending on where they are at any given time. And the green policy is always going to be hard if the late policy and take, you know, the tories of redoing the electoral boundaries to make it easier to tory and peace. The alexis that rule come in before the next election. So the late party really needs to coalesce, and that is why im storm a need to stop purging the right and extend all the branches because without the left, without his answer, this is alex is saying is gonna be much harder to win the election alexandria. Shes spoken to jerry colvin since all of this came out. And, well, i was talking to him yesterday or today, but i have spoken to very recently when we knew it was coming out. So i dont think its a great surprise to him. I mean, i work for jeremy in the labor party at the time and you know, this stuff was, was known that it was going on. Its just that it was very difficult actually wasnt in our interest in time to expose it because it would just make like a, like a hopelessly divided you know, in fighting bunch of, you know, a rabble basically so, so it was never frustratingly even though we knew the stuff was happening, it was never in our interest to say whats going on. And so now this stuff is coming out and its good to have it finally confirmed. But i do think something has changed within the labor party that makes it different from those other historical examples are just just talking about in the there is now since jeremy kobus leadership, i think the right the labor party, the left as an existential threat to them. They think that the left is a genuine threat now and they have, they want to get rid of us. I think whats happening is that theres a, an attempt to really push the left out. The good to exterminate left. You know, suspending german corbin formally. There was a very bold step, it was, it wasnt something i did lightly, and all the other actions have been in keeping with that. And so i think that even though i actually believe this is detrimental to the live party, damaging, i think those people around kissed armor dont care about that, and i think theyre going to try and do it anyway. And i do think that will have long term consequences, but like a party in may well be that they can be is trust in a general election and me the cost of living crisis, where everybody is likely that is the suffering. I mean, thats very possible, but in the long term, weve got plenty of examples from europe, especially democratic parties essentially will hold it out like without active luck with our social base. Then class. So i think not. And this is what were in for the label. I want to thank all our guests, alex jones, john curtis and jonathan. 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