James Meadway × Joe Ryle
Summary
James Meadway and Joe Ryle were colleagues who both served as advisers in John McDonnell’s Shadow Chancellor office during Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership (2015–2017), and both independently submitted accounts to the Forde Inquiry describing Labour party staff working to undermine the Corbyn leadership. Joe Ryle, a former adviser to McDonnell, alleged in his Forde Inquiry submission that James Meadway ‘had to be seconded from one of the trade unions to serve as Economic Advisor in McDonnell’s team after the party repeatedly refused to hire him.’ James Meadway, in his own Novara Media article based on his Forde Inquiry submission, explicitly references Joe Ryle as ‘my old colleague,’ writing: ‘Once I’d managed to get a desk and start work, I ran into the kinds of issues my old colleague Joe Ryle highlighted in his own Forde Inquiry submission.’ Their submissions corroborated each other’s accounts of obstructionism, press release delays, leaks, and resource misallocation directed against the Corbyn leadership.
Provenance
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