I've just read chapter about LOTO 'interference', including pushing for harsher action on Livingstone. Are we going to get acknowledgement that loads of folk now waving this report kept demanding Corbyn intervene, and kept using his failure to as damning evidence against him?

Tom Watson demanded Corbyn personally review complaints, which was widely celebrated by the people now praising this report https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/24/tom-watson-corbyn-needs-to-understand-labour-must-change-antisemitism-crisis

When Keir Starmer took over, he said he'd be demanding a report on outstanding antisemitism complaints on his desk within a week. Again, widely praised. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/07/jewish-leaders-praise-keir-starmer-for-pledges-on-labour-antisemitism

It also makes repeated reference to the 2018 period where LOTO office was routinely asked to get involved - something which we know was pushed by the very 'whistleblowers' who got paid off, and which was swiftly stopped under Formby.

Point being not that this wasn't a bad thing, but that it's not remotely the factional ya-boo that predictable folk who won't even read it are already waving it around as.

This stuff, too, seems more an indictment of those who kept demanding an assumption of guilt over allegations than of anyone else.

I remember when the leaked report came out, it was noted that its documentation of the way complaints were weaponised and feet were dragged on improvements was in itself enough for a damning conclusion about the Labour Party - but one very different from 'Corbyn bad'.

Well well well. I seem to recall this being dismissed as a wicked smear when it was documented in the leaked report.

The report explicitly acknowledges that the process improved greatly under Formby (though problems remain). Wonder if we'll be seeing much recognition of that conclusion today?

The 'outcry' over Chris Williamson referenced here involved a lot of furious demands that Corbyn do something - which we've already been told is very bad. The Board of Deputies: "Labour’s leadership must now stop dragging their feet and act immediately to expel".

Campaign Against Antisemitism: "The decision to reinstate him shows that the Labour Party’s leadership holds British Jews in contempt".

Wes Streeting said it "shows the dereliction of duty and the dereliction of leadership on the part of Jeremy Corbyn".

Honestly, most of this is just about Labour having a dysfunctional internal complaints system, which everyone with sense understood to be the case with regards to any and all complaints when Corbyn took over.

Clearly there were failures under Corbyn too, but the improvements from what he inherited are noted repeatedly and the report seems very thin gruel for those whose only interest in it is as a weapon against the left.

Also worth noting that the whole thing is based on a review of 70 complaints, and there is nothing in here to suggest that antisemitism was widespread, or even increased, under Corbyn (as there never has been, anywhere).