Labour activists ‘rigged candidate selection’

Four Labour activists accused of attempting to fix the candidate selection process by altering party records face a three-year wait for trial. Joel Bodmer, 40, who stood for selection as the Labour candidate for Croydon East in 2023, allegedly deleted an outgoing call to the Labour Party Support Team from his phone records. Joel and his wife Shila Bodmer, 41, former Southend councillor Gabriel Leroy, 24, and former Croydon councillor Carole Bonner, 69, are charged with conspiring to commit a…