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Labour councillor demands refund from party after leaked report exposed sabotage of Corbyn
Former Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson eyes former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn as he speaks to the media in June 2016

A LABOUR councillor is demanding that the party fully refunds all her membership fees and donations following the revelation that senior HQ staff conspired to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

Stevenage councillor Sarah-Jane McDonough has written to request a refund of payments from May 2015 to the present day on the grounds that they were taken “fraudulently.”

Her letter was sent after an internal Labour report, titled The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014-2019, was leaked last weekend.

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