Labour general secretary Jennie Formby rebukes Tom Watson in letter to Labour MPs

Labour’s general secretary Jennie Formby has written to the deputy leader rebuking him for trying to intervene in the party’s disciplinary processes

By Eleni Courea

Jennie Formby has sent an email to Tom Watson, copying in all Labour MPs and Lords, rebuking him for seeking to personally “log and monitor” complaints made by the parliamentary Labour party about antisemitism and abuse within the party. (Full email is below)

In it she lays out the Labour Party’s formal complaints process and accuses him of having “decided, without consultation and without regard to existing processes,” to forward complaints to his private email address.