Equalities watchdog to investigate Labour anti-Semitism claims

EHRC believes party ‘may have unlawfully discriminated against people because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs’

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Britain’s equalities watchdog has opened a preliminary investigation into the Labour Party over its handling of anti-Semitism.

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