Alan Bull’s response in full

Alan Bull has given the PT a statement on the report’s findings on the condition that we use it unedited. His statement is below:

“The 851-page leaked Labour Party report revealing the party’s own senior staff acted to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of power and undermine those who supported his leadership included false and misleading references to me. I am therefore consulting lawyers with a view to taking legal action to force the Labour Party to correct the record and apologise for misrepresenting my character and causing considerable distress to my family and me. My case was mismanaged for two years culminating in my expulsion in December 2019. The decision was taken at a meeting to which I was not invited and I was denied reasonable time to address the questionable allegations made against me. There was no oral hearing, no ability to call defence witnesses and therefore no due process. Furthermore, the officials who wrote the leaked report continued their casual approach to the facts surrounding my case. They even claimed I had contravened rules that hadn’t been adopted by the party at the time the alleged breach was supposed to have occurred.

The credibility of the disputes panel was stretched even further when one of the charges referred to my attendance at a protest in a country I have never even visited.

I am a lifelong anti-racist campaigner and I entirely refute the despicable accusations made against me.”