Labour has suspended the former head of Britain's equality watchdog, Trevor Phillips, over accusations of Islamophobia. Yet Phillips has fought racism all his life, while the party under Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of anti-Semitism and is being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Here, GUY ADAMS looks at both men's records and asks: who would you have suspended? Jeremy Corbyn: Elected to Parliament in 1983, Corbyn spent more than 30 years as a backbencher on the far-Left of the Labour Party, building controversial relationships with anti-Semites. Jeremy Corbyn: Allegations of institutional anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party are now the subject of a major investigation by the EHRC that Phillips once chaired.

Source: Daily Mail March 09, 2020 22:02 UTC