Whistleblowers to sue Labour as antisemitism row deepens

Ex-party staff to act over ‘defamation’ as angry Jeremy Corbyn criticises BBC documentary. The Labour high command is to be sued by former employees who broke cover last week to criticise the party’s handling of cases of alleged antisemitism in a dramatic escalation of the row engulfing Jeremy Corbyn’s party. Two of the whistleblowers who featured in last week’s explosive BBC Panorama programme entitled Is Labour Anti-Semitic? – Sam Matthews and Louise Withers