A Labour councillor attacked the Labour Party on the eve of polling day accusing it of a conspiracy to destroy his political career. All’s not well in London Labour…
Tanweer Khan, who was previously tipped as a future MP, claimed on X that a rogue party official fabricated a letter accusing him of antisemitism, but when he complained to the party’s top official “he took no action whatsoever.” He said instead the party “told…the Telegraph that this is an authentic letter” leading to the newspaper publishing a damaging story which accused him of attacking “Jewish-owned” social media outlets. Murky…
Khan wrote on X: “When I asked them to write to the Telegraph to get this corrected, they refused [and] instead the head of the Governance and Legal Unit at the time sent me a very threatening email warning me not to write to NEC members to highlight this… [The] legal team even accused me of peddling conspiracy theories, but I am determined that the truth WILL and MUST come out.”
Khan is standing for re-election as a councillor in the East London borough of Redbridge and has campaigned with Wes Streeting. He claimed the letter was sent to the office of then-Ilford South MP Sam Tarry, Angela Rayner’s boyfriend and his complaints were dismissed by the party’s National Executive Committee…
He said the letter was then used against him during his parliamentary selection interview for Pendle & Clitheroe in 2024 and claimed the party had confirmed the letter was passed to the panel by Tarry’s office. In X posts published late last night Khan warned that “God knows how many other members’ files have been compromised” and called for an Information Commissioner’s Office inquiry into Labour’s data handling. Quite the start to tonight’s results…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”