Dunno if there’s a problem in Labour with race. All I know is that a staffer briefed a Sunday Times journo that I’d flounced out of HQ in disgust when the 2019 exit polls came out.

Small problem... I wasn’t even there. They’d just seen an entirely different brown woman.

The journalist in question took down the tweet as soon as they’d been made aware of the fact that, when I was meant to be storming around Southside I’d been doing a livestream at Novara HQ. Which is good! But I think that microevent speaks to a culture in the party bureaucracy.

And it’s one where disdain for the left overlaps with, and is amplified by, racism. Because the target of your ire is a factional opponent, little thought is given to your own blindspots or personal bigotries, and those things get even more entrenched.

Anyway, it just doesn’t seem like a super healthy working environment, especially for people of colour.