Police investigating Zaffar-Mahmood altercation – but not allegations of sexual exploitation in office

Keir Starmer covered up whistleblower’s allegations of sexual and financial exploitation by staffer of Khalid Mahmood – but police are involved in spat between two right-wing Labour politicians

Skwawkbox exclusively revealed earlier today that tensions were running so high at a crisis meeting organised by the Labour party with West Midlands Kashmiris over Keir Starmer’s collusion in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, that they triggered an ‘altercation’ between former Birmingham Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood and fellow right-winger, Birmingham councillor Waseem Zaffar.

Now, West Midlands Police have confirmed that they are investigating the altercation, in which witnesses have said Mahmood was ‘aggressively’ confronted by at least two people and that Zaffar, who was shouting profanities, had to be restrained.

But neither WMP nor the met investigated whistleblower Elaina Cohen’s allegations that a staffer and alleged lover of right-wing then-Labour MP Khalid Mahmood was ‘criminally’ and ‘sadistically’ abusing Muslim women fleeing domestic violence, including blackmail and loaning them out to local figures for sex.

PM Keir Starmer, at the time ‘opposition’ leader,  repeatedly covered up Cohen’s allegations – and still took no action even after Mahmood, during Cohen’s successful tribunal case for wrongful dismissal over her whistleblowing, accepted without challenge the sworn evidence of one of the victims of the abuse. Their inaction led Ms Cohen to accuse  Starmer of ‘brutal disregard for women’.

Starmer’s appalling record toward women raises further serious issues, including his sheltering two alleged sex pests in his Shadow Cabinet – and taking no action against disgraced MP Chris Matheson after he was placed under investigation and ultimately found guilty by Parliament of sexual harassment. Matheson instead resigned after the finding.

Starmer also welcomed Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle back into the party last year, despite Parliament finding Coyle guilty of at least one count of sexual harassment and of making racist remarks – and now Starmer’s government is blocking the abuse inquiry that would have put his time as head of the CPS under scrutiny and disclosure.

And the Labour right-winger persistently did nothing to protect Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum, a survivor of domestic abuse, from attempts to criminalise and oust her as the constituency’s MP by allies of her ex-husband, with Labour instead denying her abuse and gathering to trumpet her removal if the attempt had succeeded, despite calls for action by the official Domestic Violence Advocate.

Police, perhaps because Starmer was once Director of Public Prosecutions – a poor one, according to his nine out of ten of his then-staff – also did nothing to protect the women being victimised. But a spat between two right-wing male Labour figures has spurred them into action.

Ms Cohen told Skwawkbox:

Birmingham Labour Party should have addressed scandals in the party years ago saving thousands in police resource needed elsewhere.

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