Labour’s under-resourced compliance unit has secretly suspended 50 party members over anti-Semitic and racist comments, 20 within the last fortnight alone. With the Labour Party bracing itself for the loss of more than 100 seats at Thursday’s local elections, and an admission from London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan that his campaign has already been hurt by the issue, it has been revealed that 50 members were secretly suspended amid the ongoing anti-Semitism row. Senior party sources have identified the massive influx of hard-left activists during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign as a reason Labour’s compliance unit has become swamped, reports The Telegraph. One source said: “There are just six people in the compliance unit with one more joining after the [European Union] referendum and frankly, it’s nowhere near enough. “They can’t cope with the number of new members that have joined since Jeremy became leader, they need more resources.” The newspaper reports that the 16 suspensions which have already been made public since October merely represent “the tip of the iceberg”, with the number of members actually suspended in the past two months being 50, of which up to 20 were within the past two weeks alone. While attempting to focus on this week’s various elections by unveiling a local election poster this morning (pictured above), Mr. Corbyn dismissed