Jeremy Corbyn was blamed for the rise of antisemitism in his party

Seventy serving and former Labour officials have turned whistleblower and given sworn statements to the official investigation into the party’s antisemitism crisis, The Times has learnt.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been inundated with testimonies from Labour Party staff, officials on the national executive and elected representatives since it announced in May that it was investigating the party.

In addition it has been sent more than 100 testimonies from party members, many Jewish, about antisemitism that they say they have suffered or witnessed at party events.

The evidence has been drawn together in the Jewish Labour Movement’s 47-page, 28,000 word submission to the inquiry, which The Times has seen.

Despite Labour’s insistence that Jeremy Corbyn and his team have