LABOUR headquarters has been accused of fostering a “bullying atmosphere” by ordering the Young Labour chair to remove a statement she posted in support of Jeremy Corbyn.

Jess Barnard said that, following a vote of the Young Labour national committee (YLNC) on Saturday, a decision was reached to publish a statement to oppose Labour’s removal of the whip from the former Labour leader.

His successor Sir Keir Starmer refused to restore the whip last week when Mr Corbyn’s membership of the party was reinstated after he had been suspended for his statement, following October’s Equality & Human Rights Commission report, that the scale of the problem of anti-semitism in Labour under his leadership had been overstated for political reasons.