BLACK Labour members held a protest outside the party’s conference today, condemning the leadership’s “silence” in response to the Forde report.

The damning report, published earlier this year, concluded that the Labour had failed to tackle anti-black prejudice within its ranks, with some party employees saying that they believed there was a “hierarchy of racism.”

It also found that black Labour MP Diane Abbott had been “vilified” by Labour staff who expressed a “visceral disgust, drawing (consciously or otherwise) on racist tropes” when criticising the Hackney MP in WhatsApp groups.