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| Labour gives examples of voters barred from its leadership election | Labour gives examples of voters barred from its leadership election |
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| Labour has provided examples of individuals it has barred from voting in its leadership election, including one who posted supportively about the Greens on Facebook and another who stated she was not backing her local Labour MP. | Labour has provided examples of individuals it has barred from voting in its leadership election, including one who posted supportively about the Greens on Facebook and another who stated she was not backing her local Labour MP. |
| The details were released after the party said 3,200 people had been excluded from voting for not supporting the aims of the Labour party, including 400 Tories and 1,900 Greens. | The details were released after the party said 3,200 people had been excluded from voting for not supporting the aims of the Labour party, including 400 Tories and 1,900 Greens. |
| Related: Labour rejects trade union leader’s vote for Jeremy Corbyn | |
| People who have been barred by Labour include: | People who have been barred by Labour include: |
| Related: Labour establishment blind to their own failings that led to Jeremy Corbyn surge | Letters | |
| Harriet Harman, the acting Labour leader, told the party in May that “anyone – providing they are on the electoral register – can become a registered supporter, pay £3 and have a vote to decide our next leader”. | Harriet Harman, the acting Labour leader, told the party in May that “anyone – providing they are on the electoral register – can become a registered supporter, pay £3 and have a vote to decide our next leader”. |
| Subsequently, however, Labour tightened the rules because of fears that Tories and members of other parties were trying to sign up with the intention of influencing the result. | Subsequently, however, Labour tightened the rules because of fears that Tories and members of other parties were trying to sign up with the intention of influencing the result. |
| Related: Labour party membership, surges and purges | Letters | Related: Labour party membership, surges and purges | Letters |
| The party is now checking that they are not: | The party is now checking that they are not: |
| Some excluded people – many of them backers of the frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn – have taken to social media using the hashtag #LabourPurge to complain that they have been unfairly barred. | Some excluded people – many of them backers of the frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn – have taken to social media using the hashtag #LabourPurge to complain that they have been unfairly barred. |
| Speaking after a meeting of the leadership candidates, Harman rejected claims that the party was unfairly excluding supporters of Corbyn. | Speaking after a meeting of the leadership candidates, Harman rejected claims that the party was unfairly excluding supporters of Corbyn. |
| She stressed it was not Labour staff taking the decisions to bar people, but two panels of the party’s elected National Executive Committee. | She stressed it was not Labour staff taking the decisions to bar people, but two panels of the party’s elected National Executive Committee. |