Ammar Kazmi

Ammar Kazmi
Ammar Kazmi ; (political activist);
Alma mater	University of Nottingham

Ammar Kazmi is a British anti-imperialist political activist and a member of the Labour Party. He is a graduate in Law with Spanish and Spanish Law at the University of Nottingham.^[1]

EHRC report

Launching the book "How the EHRC got it so Wrong" in July 2021, Ammar Kazmi said:

"As we know, the EHRC report made absurd findings of both indirect discrimination and harassment by the Labour Party in respect of the handling of antisemitism complaints. Now because those findings of unlawful conduct were made against the Labour Party rather than any particular individual, only the party had a legal statutory right in the Equality Act (2006) to appeal the EHRC's findings. But of course, by that time, Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and David Evans had come to lead the Labour Party and they obviously didn't exercise that right, I think, unsurprisingly. And I believe that if the party had done so, the report would have been substantially different and much more refined, and I don't think the EHRC would have been able to substantiate much of its monumentally flawed legal analysis, and I don't believe that any findings of unlawful conduct would have been sustained either.

"It's reasonable to surmise that the EHRC knew that their report wouldn't be subject to an appeal because of the change in leadership which gave them pretty much a carte blanche to say whatever they wanted and so what we effectively had was a hostile leadership of the Labour Party colluding in a quasi-legal process designed to produce findings that could be used for political ends against the previous leadership and its supporters.

"So, unfortunately there is now no opportunity as Geoffrey Bindman QC mentioned in his foreword to the report to directly appeal the EHRC report. So the only mechanism that can be used, now to challenge the report is a judicial review, and, to my knowledge, there's only one judicial review, which is being brought by Ken Livingstone and Pam Bromley, who were both unfairly named in the report and they filed papers in January earlier this year."^[2]

On 19 February 2023, on the Not the Andrew Marr Show, Ammar Kazmi and Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC picked apart the EHRC report into alleged antisemitism in the Labour Party.^[3]

Slow death of Blairism

On 8 July 2021, Ammar Kazmi spoke on the Not the Andrew Marr Show about the legal case against the Labour Party brought by eight members who were suspended,^[4] and reported:

After a lengthy legal battle, eight Labour activists who have suffered ‘unfair’ disciplinary action have finally reached the finish line in their legal claim against the Labour Party. Whilst achieving substantial victories since the case began over half a year ago, it was the party that disappointingly won the final round in the High Court today.^[5]