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Today’s Labour Party panel extended my suspension for another year because of my political views, not because I have done anything to harm the Labour Party.

The Labour Party’s disciplinary process was not in accord with natural justice in a number of ways. For example the panel hearing was not held in public, despite the fact that it could have been under Labour’s rules. I was suspended for more than 11 months before the hearing was held.

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People in this country urgently need a Labour government.

Scheduling the final day of this disciplinary hearing, on the day the Labour Party launched its campaign for the 4 May elections, was a supreme misjudgement by whoever planned this in the Labour Party Headquarters.

It was clearly not in Labour’s interests as the hearing will inevitably generate unfavourable headlines at a time when Labour should be focussed on campaigning.

Labour members need to step up campaigning towards May's elections and redouble our efforts to secure a Labour victory.

I will be launching a campaign to overturn my suspension of Party membership.