Conference invite fuels discrimination row

A British Labour Party member in Northern Ireland taking a race discrimination case against the leadership will today challenge an invitation to attend a special delegate conference.

GMB trade unionist Andy McGivern, whose solicitors yesterday lodged papers in the County Court in London in a race discrimination action against the party, revealed he has written to general secretary Matt Carter after receiving an invitation to attend a local government women’s and youth conference in the party at Gateshead next February.