Labour Party criticised for revoking journalist's press pass
The move against investigative reporter Asa Winstanley comes days after the government-funded Community Safety Trust published a report singling out his coverage of anti-semitism allegations in the Labour Party
LABOUR has been labelled “undemocratic” after the party revoked a press pass for a leading journalist on Israel-Palestine.
Asa Winstanley, an investigative reporter for Electronic Intifada, successfully applied for a pass to attend Labour’s annual conference in Brighton this September.
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