Mr Corbyn also faced criticism for handing a peerage to
race equality campaigner Martha Osamor after it emerged she had defended Labour activists suspended from the party over alleged anti-Semitism.
Labour was granted three nominations, and Jeremy Corbyn put forward the former party general secretary Iain McNicol and
the race equality campaigner Martha Osamor, the mother of the MP Kate Osamor, as had been expected.
In her first «weekly column» since the suspension, she does not reveal any meetings with
race equality campaigners but does say it was «a pleasure to attend the Newton Abbot Town Ball».
Bloomfield says around 300 activists at the Riots, Recession and Resistance event heard from speakers including Labour politicians,
race equality campaigners and student activists.