Christine Shawcroft, a one of Momentum’s directors and a member of Labour’s ruling national executive committee, has resigned her post after the Times obtained a copy of an email in which she called for Alan Bull, a council candidate in Peterborough who has been suspended by the Labour Party after he posted an article on Facebook that called the Holocaust a “hoax”, to be readmitted to the Labour party. (Bull claims that the posts had been taken out of context and that other posts by him had been doctored to look more offensive than they were.)
Shawcroft’s tenure on the disputes panel was already set to be shortlived, as she had voluntarily stepped down from the Momentum slate in advance of fresh elections to the member’s division of the NEC in June. Ordinary Labour members elect nine representatives to the 39-strong body, with the main battle between the official Momentum-backed set of left candidates against the Progress-Labour First backed roster of centre-left candidates.
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