Critics have highlighted a paper agreed by the Labour NEC in 2019, which stated: “Except in cases of mistaken identity, only the NEC can choose to lift a suspension and issue a warning”. The decision did not go to Labour’s national executive committee and LabourList has been told that the investigations officer working on the case – the only Muslim staffer in Labour’s governance and legal unit – was not included in the process. This has now been lifted, although the case is still active.
Labour is facing criticism after lifting its suspension of Trevor Phillips. The broadcaster, who is in Keir Starmer’s party branch, is being investigated over allegations of Islamophobia and was administratively suspended last year.
And while the Shadow Health Secretary highlighted that Labour has long warned that the coalition government Lansley reform was wasteful and forced privatisation on the NHS, he questioned the timing of the bill: “Patients will rightly ask why the Health Secretary is now embarking on a top down reorganisation of the NHS rather than resourcing the NHS sufficiently to bring down the record waiting lists for surgery, mental health and cancer care or giving our NHS workers the proper pay rise they deserve.” “After a year when billions in taxpayers money has been handed out to Tory cronies for duff personal protective equipments and testing contracts, allowing further privatisation with no oversight will be resisted strongly by Labour,” Jonathan Ashworth said. As We Own It’s Pascale Robinson said: “The last thing needs right now is a dangerous overhaul which would put the private sector at the heart of our health service.” The bill provides for private healthcare providers to sit on ICS boards, which will be responsible for commissioning and bringing together NHS and local government services, and could see companies handed contracts without going through a tender process. The bill would reshape the NHS in England with 42 new regional integrated care systems (ICSs), replacing local clinical commissioning groups. Instead, it places private companies at the heart of the health service. But this is not a rolling back of privatisation. The far-reaching shake up of the NHS would see section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, which requires all contracts to be put out for competitive tender, repealed. Ministers have published the health and care bill – or the ‘corporate takeover bill’, as it is described by many. Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning.
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