Rupa Huq is the subject of complaints by two former employees

A Labour MP has been accused of antisemitism by two of her former employees in formal complaints to the party, The Times has learnt.

As the party’s victory in the Peterborough by-election plunged Labour into yet another antisemitism row, it can be revealed that Rupa Huq, who has represented Ealing Central and Acton since 2015, is the subject of complaints by two people who worked at her office in Westminster until this year.

The allegations will intensify the scrutiny of how Labour handles accusations of antisemitism in its ranks, less than two weeks after Britain’s equality watchdog opened a statutory inquiry into the party following almost four years of bitter rows about the issue.

The first complainant, who is not Jewish but has Jewish heritage