The Labour Files - The Forde Response I Al Jazeera Investigations

In July 2022, independent barrister Martin Forde KC produced a report on racism and factionalism in the British Labour Party. Commissioned by the party leader, Keir Starmer, it identified what it called a “hierarchy of racism”, with antisemitism taken more seriously within the Party than other forms of racism.
Now Forde speaks publicly for the first time to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. He reveals he has heard almost nothing from the Labour Party since the report was published. And he says he resisted pressure from the BBC to remove criticism of its 2019 Panorama documentary, Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
Forde said he felt “vindicated” by the I-Unit investigation, The Labour Files, which he found fascinating. Released in September 2022, the investigation revealed the inner workings of Britain’s opposition party, which many believe will form the next government.

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[AlexTiffinYT]

This should be a national story. Great work

[SolidGoat]

The pure silence in UK over this series is truly shocking

[chetmanley]

So Starmer didn't get the answer he wanted and chose to ignore it.

[lynndavy]

Thank you Al Jazeeera for being a media source for truth, such a rarity today.

[RobinRawlings]

The current Labour Party and BBC political team are a total disgrace.

[johnpulman]

It’s shocking how badly we are served by the major media outlets in the UK. The truth of what happened in Labour has been almost universally misrepresented by them and these Labour Files reports by Al Jazeera exposing that misrepresentation have been almost universally ignored.

[biffa]

THanks again Al Jazeera for stepping into the void left by UK MSM " In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king". Where do we go from here ?, personally I abandoned the Labour Party after initial Labour Files before Starmers direction to do so. A very dark future lies ahead for British politics, ive always believed that we get the governments we deserve and here we go again.

[anmona]

Shame shame shame shame on BBC and British media.

[amaan]

This man’s a top guy, deserves a lot of respect !!!

[CowDaily]

This is absolutely shocking and should be on the front page of every newspaper.

[mpj]

I'm not surprised Labour isn't talking to Forde, considering his report doesn't represent the party's narrative.

And yet another blow against the bbc here!

[georgepeel]

Two things - not - mentioned are, first, the lack of discussion, on The Forde Inquiry Report, within this Labour Party, once The Report had, finally, been published, and, second, the removal of The Forde Inquiry Report - in its entirety - from this Labour Party's website, without discussion or explanation, as though it had never existed.

[lost_boy]

the guilty parties of all of the smears against Labour should be in prison for perverting the course of democracy. This is very serious and it's unsurprising that the msm and indeed the current Labour leadership aren't talking about this.

[mrcrisps]

I feel sorry for Martin Forde a bit, he wandered into an argument and tried to see both sides in a logical and rational manner, and of course it's only now after the fact that he'll see the full scale one-sidedness of this whole affair, he'll probably have his reputation trashed if he becomes any more active than he has been although this might be enough. And it'll be too late for him to have a real voice if he ever even stood a chance.

[wallygrainger]

Disgracefully ignored by mainstream media.

[violets]

Excellent journalism, as always from Al Jazeera very informative. Thank you

[tatata]

As soon as Labour realised the report didn’t say what they wanted it to say the dropped it like a hot brick. I believe we have to get rid of the Tories but I have zero hopes that anything is going to really change. Labour will get in, tinker around the edges, get the blame for everything and get turfed out pdq. It’s beyond depressing.

[TomMAF]

Thanks Al Zazeera for doing what the UK media can't/doesn't want to apparently

[paulcharisse]

Thank you for doing real journaslim. I hope this occurs in the UK one day to.

[shaesmith]

I want someone, anyone, to tell me why I or anyone else in this country should vote for the Labour Party. Because this to me is the death of the Labour Party