Peter Willsman
Peter Rupert William Willsman (born February 1944) is a British political activist who was a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee and the secretary of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. He was suspended from the Labour Party and the NEC in May 2019, pending investigation, after publicity over making antisemitic comments, and then expelled in November 2022. Early life and career Willsman was born in Andover in 1944. He worked for the National Union of Public Employees as a researcher. Political activism As a delegate representing Canterbury's constituency party to Labour's 1976 conference, Willsman unsuccessfully moved a resolution to make comprehensive education compulsory by 1977, rather than maintaining a system with grammar schools and independent schools. From the 1970s, Willsman has been a central member of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, a left-wing group that campaigns for more power to be given to party members, and is its secretary. Every year between 1981 and 1994, Willsman was elected onto the Labour Party's Conference Arrangements Committee. He was described as one of the left wing of the party's "key strategists" in 1981, having focused on party constitutional issues rather than ideological issues. In his time on this