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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Telegraph apologises for claim former Corbyn aide was ‘anti-Jewish racist’

Laura Murray arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice in London last year.
Laura Murray arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice in London last year. Photograph: Beretta/Sims/Rex/Shutterstock

The Telegraph has apologised and paid £40,000 in damages for falsely describing a former aide to Jeremy Corbyn as an “anti-Jewish racist” and part of the “vile antisemitism of Corbyn’s Labour”.

The allegations about Laura Murray, which the Telegraph has accepted were untrue and without basis, were contained in an opinion piece by the former Labour MP and current independent peer Ian Austin, who has also apologised.

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