Sam Matthews
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 Disaffected former official with an axe to grind | ||||||||||||
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Sam Matthews is the Labour Party's former Head of Disputes (2016 to 2018).
Sam Matthews was "signed off sick" two months after Jennie Formby became Labour's General Secretary, and considered committing suicide by jumping from Jennie Formby's window.
In a BBC Panorama programme on 10 July 2019, Matthews said that Seumas Milne’s suggestion of a “review” into how antisemitism cases were being handled was “the leader’s office requesting to be involved directly in the disciplinary process”.[1]
Matthews said:
- “This is not a helpful suggestion, it is an instruction.”[2]
In a statement the Labour Party accused Panorama of "deliberate and malicious representations designed to mislead the public" and accused some of the ex-staff members who spoke to the programme of being "disaffected former officials" who have "always opposed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, worked to actively undermine it and have both personal and political axes to grind."[3]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:BBC Panorama Investigation Into Labour Antisemitism Omitted Key Evidence and Parts of Labour’s Response | Article | 22 July 2020 | Justin Schlosberg | The fact that the Labour Party is now settling libel cases brought by both John Ware and the Labour 'whistleblowers' is remarkable, not least because there is meant to be an ongoing internal inquiry into the leaked internal report, whose findings have now effectively been prejudged. But I’ve been told this will cost the party close to half a million in damages and costs. |
| Document:How top Labour officials plotted to bring down Jeremy Corbyn | Article | 16 April 2020 | Jonathan Cook | The stench of cover-up is already in the air. Keir Starmer's Labour needs to come clean and admit that its most senior officials defrauded hundreds of thousands of party members, and millions more supporters, who voted for a fairer, kinder Britain. |
| Document:Labour ‘gagging orders’ put in place by McNicol – and gave hundreds of £1000s to allies | Article | 16 July 2019 | Shadow Cabinet learns ‘non-disclosure agreements’ on disaffected ex-staff appearing on Panorama and talking to media were authorised by former General Secretary Iain McNicol – and enriched staff (considered to be his anti-Corbyn allies) by hundreds of thousands of pounds | |
| Document:Starmer’s Mortal Wound On The Soul Of The Labour Party | blog post | 30 October 2020 | Rachael Swindon | Starmer clearly believes he has now firmly established his own political identity and laid the foundations for the transformation of Labour’s electoral prospects – in the mould of Kinnock and Blair. It may be that he has simply destroyed his reputation for moral and intellectual integrity – and inflicted a mortal wound on the soul of his party. |
| Document:That Leaked Labour Party Report | blog post | 20 April 2020 | Craig Murray | That Leaked Labour Party Report proves conclusively that Sam Matthews’ allegations of unwarranted interference from Corbyn’s office to block anti-semitism action are malicious lies. |
| File:Labour internal antisemitism report.pdf | report | March 2020 | Labour Party | An enormous (851 pages) report of an internal UK Labour Party investigation into alleged antisemitism in the Party between 2014 and 2019. |
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