Labour is facing an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into its decision to charge non-white attendants at a conference less than white ones.

Next month Labour will hold an event in Loughborough with Jeremy Corbyn speaking that will charge £40 for white members and £30 for non-white members.

Andrew Bridgen, the North West Leicestershire Tory MP, said the charges showed that Labour was abandoning white working-class people. He claims that it contradicts decades of anti-racial discrimination laws, specifically the Equality Act 2010. Labour says it was subsidising non-white members to improve representation.

Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, told Mr Bridgen that her organisation was investigating.

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