The Labour Files

Season 1

2022 · 5 episodes · 4h 7m in all

An investigation based on the largest leak of documents in British political history. The Labour Files examines thousands of internal documents, emails and social media messages to reveal how senior officials in one of the two parties of government in the UK ran a coup by stealth against the elected leader of the party. The program will show how officials set about silencing, excluding and expelling its own members in a ruthless campaign to destroy the chances of Jeremy Corbyn becoming Britain’s prime minister. Candidates for key political roles were blocked and constituency groups suspended as the party’s central office sought to control the elected leadership.

Episodes

1. 

   1. The Purge

   23 Sept 2022 · 74 min

   How bureaucrats in Britain's Labour party crush democracy in its own ranks to weaken its elected leader and silence the party membership.

2. 

   2. The Crisis

   25 Sept 2022 · 84 min

   The disturbing truth behind the Labour Party's so-called "anti-Semitism crisis" that helps destroy the party leader and silence debate on Israel and Palestine.

3. 

   3. The Hierarchy

   27 Sept 2022 · 55 min

   How the senior ranks of Britain's Labour Party create a hierarchy of racism by prioritising anti Semitism over Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination.

4. 

   4. The Spying Game

   30 Sept 2022 · 21 min

   In the final episode of The Labour Files – The Spying Game – Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit tells the sinister story of how The Labour Party used hacked data from a journalist to investigate their own members who were critical of the party.

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   5. The Forde Response

   16 Mar 2023 · 13 min

   For the first time, independent barrister Martin forde KC speaks about his report on racism and factionalism in the British Labour Party.