After weeks of pressure from MPs, Andrew Fisher, Jeremy Corbyn’s head of policy, has been suspended from Labour. The dispute was triggered by Fisher’s past tweets, which allegedly showed that he supported a Class War candidate in Croydon South in 2015, rather than the party’s Emily Benn. “If you live in Croydon South, vote with dignity, vote @campaignbeard,” he wrote. Under Labour rules, it is an expellable offence for members to endorse non-party candidates.
Benn, the granddaughter of Tony, recently made a formal complaint to Labour general secretary Ian McNicol, writing: “I was the parliamentary candidate for Croydon South, having been democratically elected by the local party. Actively advocating voting against the official Labour candidate, in favour of another party, contradicts Labour Party rules.” The opposition’s National Executive Commmitee (NEC) will now carry out a report into Fisher and consider whether disciplinary action should be taken.
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