Conservative Party co-chairperson Amanda Milling has written to Sir Keir Starmer accusing him of failing to address union chief Len McCluskey’s remarks about antisemiitism.

In a letter sent following the publication of the damning EHRC report into Labour’s handling of anti-Jewish racism, Ms Milling has accused Sir Keir of failing to commit to a review of the funding his party receives from the Unite union in the light of repeated comments made by its General Secretary.

At Prime Minister Question time on Wednesday, Boris Johnson continued with the attack, telling the House of Commons he found it “astonishing” that Labour still finds itself in receipt of Unite funding.

Ms Milling’s letter details how in  2017 Mr McCluskey said that he has “never recognised” antisemitism in Labour – while claiming the crisis was “wildly exaggerated” the following year.

It also referred to the Unite leader’s recent remarks to Lord Peter Mandelson - for which he later apologised - when he was accused of using an antisemitic trope by telling the Labour peer to “count his gold.”

In a 2019 interview, Mr McCluskey also described the antisemitism row saying “the whole thing is contrived” .

Ms Milling asks the Labour leader about his response to the publication of  EHRC report and his pledge to “now act to tackle antisemitism in the Labour Party.”

She writes: “You said, ‘If you’re antisemitic, you should be nowhere near this Party.’

“You went on to add that those who claim ‘there’s no problem with antisemitism in the Labour Party….are part of the problem too.’ And ‘should be nowhere the Labour Party either.’”

“However, Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of one of the Labour Party’s biggest union donors, has been accused of antisemitism while denying it exists in the Labour Party.”

It later states that Sir Keir’s pledge to act on antisemitism in his party “are welcome words after years of suffering by many in the Labour family and Jewish community, however, it is clear that Len McCluskey does not pass this test.”