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Karie Murphy is a British Labour Party activist who was Executive Director of the office of the Leader of the Opposition (LOTO) under Jeremy Corbyn.[1] She was moved from the LOTO office to Labour Party headquarters in October 2019.[2]
Following Labour's defeat in the UK/2019 General Election, Karie Murphy was nominated for a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn in his dissolution honours list.[3]
SMT criticism
Members of Labour's Senior Management Team (SMT) criticised Ms Murphy.[4]
In 2017 Labour General Secretary’s office director Julie Lawrence called Mr Corbyn’s chief of staff Karie Murphy “crazy” and said that her face “would make a good dartboard,” while Mr Heneghan called her a “bitch face cow.”
Ms Oldknow called Ms Murphy “fat” and Mr Corbyn’s political secretary Katy Clark “a smelly cow.”[5]
Legal victory
On 25 April 2023, the SKWAWKBOX reported:
The Labour Party’s attempt to bring private correspondence between former Corbyn chief of staff Karie Murphy and her lawyer as evidence in its attempt to sue five former party staff over the infamous leaked Labour report exposing racism, fraud and sabotage by right-wing staffers has been rejected by a Judge, leaving the party facing a huge legal bill even before the main case concludes. ‘Mainstream media' appear to have ignored the result.
The Judge also ruled that the party knew that Ms Murphy was unaware that Labour still had access to her personal correspondence – and that it acted wrongly in not informing her about it:
- Against this background, the fact that Ms Murphy imposed no constraints on the searches that could be undertaken is of little significance. She mistakenly believed that she did not need to impose such constraints, because her personal information had been removed. The Labour Party’s IT staff knew this to be false but quite deliberately did not alert her to this fact.
- The Labour Party should have realised that it was confidential.
The Judge also ordered Labour to re-plead the entire basis it thinks it has for suing the five former staff.[6]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Labour costs pass £500,000 in hearing over leaked antisemitism report | Article | 31 August 2023 | Aletha Adu | "Much of the Labour Party machinery from 2015-18 was openly opposed to Jeremy Corbyn, and worked to directly undermine the elected leadership of the party...from winning elections to building a functioning complaints and disciplinary process" – Summary of leaked internal report (page 29). |
| Document:Spiteful misogynistic bullying of Diane Abbott and left-wing staff laid out in internal party report | Article | 13 April 2020 | Lamiat Sabin | Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol, Executive Director for Elections Patrick Heneghan, and Mr McNicol’s office manager Tracey Allen mocked Diane Abbott and insinuated that she had faked illness towards the end of the 2017 General Election campaign. |
References
- ↑ "Karie Murphy wins role in Corbyn’s office"
- ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: THE MOMENT AND REAL REASON KARIE MURPHY LOST HER LOTO POSITION"
- ↑ "Labour antisemitism row: Corbyn under fire over Karie Murphy peerage nomination"
- ↑ "‘It’s going to be a long night’ – How Members of Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose"
- ↑ Document:Spiteful misogynistic bullying of Diane Abbott and left-wing staff laid out in internal party report
- ↑ "Labour facing six-figure legal bill after losses in case against former Corbyn staff"
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