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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Brown

Labour MP’s aide was unfairly dismissed, tribunal rules

Labour MP Khalid Mahmood and his former aide and ex-partner, Elaina Cohen.
Labour MP Khalid Mahmood and his former aide and ex-partner, Elaina Cohen. Photograph: Jason Skarratt/Sunday Mercury/BPM Media

A parliamentary aide and former partner of a Labour MP has won a claim against him for unfair dismissal with a tribunal also agreeing she was “isolated and marginalised” for a year before being sacked.

Elaina Cohen won two claims that she made against her former boss Khalid Mahmood, the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr. But she lost other claims including that her dismissal was related to race, religion or belief.

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