Lord Mendelsohn has stepped down from the Labour party front bench at the request of its leader Jeremy Corbyn in the wake of the Presidents Club dinner scandal.
A spokesman for the party said: “Jeremy Corbyn has this evening asked Lord Mendelsohn to step back from the frontbrench as he attended the Presidents Club dinner and he has agreed to do so.”
According to a Financial Times expose this week, female staff were allegedly sexually harassed at the elite men-only fundraising event.
The party had earlier explained that Lord Mendelsohn, shadow spokesman for international trade, had attended part of the dinner as “president of a charity that received support from the event. Lord Mendelsohn did not seen any of the appalling incidents described in the report but he unreservedly condemns such behaviour.”
