Charity faces election bias investigation
Green Party spokesman reports the Campaign Against Antisemitism to Charity Commission over anti-Corbyn smear campaign
Protesters during a demonstration organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism outside the Labour Party headquarters in central London, in April 2018
A CHARITY that responded to Jeremy Corbyn’s election defeat by saying that “the beast is slain” is reportedly under investigation by the third-sector watchdog.
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has been reported to the Charity Commission for heading a number of anti-Labour campaigns.
The complaint, made by Green Party home-affairs spokesman Shahrar Ali, accused the group of failing to be independent of party politics — a requirement under law for charities.
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