Telegraph apologises for claim former Corbyn aide was ‘anti-Jewish racist’
by Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5X72P)
Laura Murray receives 40,000 damages for untrue comments made in piece by former Labour MP Ian Austin
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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