Labour Party Drops Legal Action Against Corbyn’s Former Staff

Published on June 7, 2024

Labour has discontinued its legal claims against five Jeremy Corbyn-era staff members who denied leaking an internal report to the press, according to the law firm, Carter-Ruck, on Thursday. The Labour Party had alleged that five individuals including Mr. Corbyn’s former chief of staff, Karie Murphy, his former director of communications, Seumas Milne, as well as three other staffers, leaked a “controversial report” which looked into anti-Semitism, just after Sir Keir Starmer assumed leadership of the party in 2020. All five of the accused maintained they would “vigorously defend themselves” in any High Court action. Carter-Ruck, the lawyers representing the former staff members, said in a statement: “The [Labour] Party is discontinuing its legal claims against Karie Murphy, Seumas Milne, Georgie Robertson, Harry Hayball and Laura Murray on a ‘no order as to costs’ basis.”...

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