Sir Keir Starmer

A LAWSUIT against five Labour staff who worked under Jeremy Corbyn while he was leader of the party has been dropped.

They include Mr Corbyn’s former chief of staff Karie Murphy and his former director of communica­tions Seumas Milne, and were accused of leaking an internal report on anti-Semitism and “conspiring” against current leader Sir Keir Starmer.

Labour officials accused the staffers of “entering into a conspiracy to use unlawful means … to provide a copy (or copies) of the report to the press” in an effort to undermine Mr Starmer’s leadership.

The accused always denied the allegations and now, four years and £2.4million later, the Labour Party has dropped the legal action.

A joint statement from Labour and the former staffers’ lawyers read: “The 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. The five welcome the resolution of the claims.”