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West London Labour Party calls off planned Kerry-Anne Mendoza meeting

The Canary editor had been invited to speak to Kensington Labour Party on Monday evening

November 23, 2020 16:58
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Kensington Labour Party have confirmed that a planned meeting at which the editor of The Canary website had been due to appear as a guest speaker will not now go ahead.

Kerry-Anne Mendoza had been advertised by the West London Labour Party as speaking at  Monday’s night’s all-member meeting with the claim she is “among the most prominent left-wing journalists in the country.”

But after details of the event leaked over the weekend there was a furious response from campaigners against antisemitism and many Labour members who pointed to Ms Mendoza’s lengthy record of highly controversial statements – including comparisons between planned Brexit celebrations and Nazi Germany.

Kensington Labour had said The Canary editor, who is not a member of Sir Keir Starmer’s party, would be giving a talk on “current affairs”, covering the recent report on black people, racism and human rights by the House of Commons and Lords Joint Committee on Human Rights.

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