This article is the subject of a complaint from David Prescott

It was at the height of the “Pestminster” sexual harassment crisis two years ago that a young Labour MP met Jeremy Corbyn in secret to tell her story.

The only other person present on the afternoon of Friday, November 3, 2017, was Karie Murphy, Corbyn’s chief of staff, who took notes and later wrote that the woman appeared “visibly distressed”.

The MP told her party leader that one of his own advisers had sexually harassed her at an event in 2014. The MP also claimed that she had heard of two further incidents involving the same man, one in 1993 and a second in 2017.

In the earliest case the man allegedly tried to