Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign director is facing allegations of electoral fraud after registering to vote at a property where it appears he is almost never present.

Sam Tarry, who played a key role in last week’s “Traingate” row involving the Labour Party leader, claims to live in a small flat in the impoverished east London borough of Barking in order to stand and serve as a councillor there.

He has received £20,000 in allowances from the council over the past three years and is due to collect a further £10,000.

However, official records seen by The Sunday Times appear to show that he in fact lives in a £550,000 house in Brighton, 70 miles away, with his wife, Julia Fozard, a doctor at the local