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Laura Murray, an aide in Mr Corbyn’s office and the daughter of one of his closest allies, has been moved to help process anti-Semitism cases faster. But the Labour aide was involved in an online dispute over anti-Semitism featuring Countdown’s Rachel Riley and the Guardian’s Owen Jones. Ms Riley shared a screengrab of an Owen Jones tweet from January 2019 about former British National Party leader Nick Griffin being pelted with eggs.

To which Mr Jones then accused Riley of associating this tweet with the recent egg attack on Jeremy Corbyn and of labelling the opposition leader a Nazi. Owen Jones tweeted: “The tweet you're quoting refers to Nick Griffin, an actual Nazi.” Labour’s Laura Murray then launched an online attack on Ms Riley, the Countdown presenter who has been speaking out against anti-Semitism. Ms Murray called Ms Riley “dangerous” and said “nobody should engage with her.” READ MORE: Corbyn ATTACK: Jones furious as Riley uses HIS Nazi-egg tweet

Jeremy Corbyn has been embroiled in accusations of not doing enough to tackle Labour anti-semitism

Rachel Riley was involved in twitter row with Owen Jones

Labour would not comment on the appointment, although a party source confirmed two junior staff members had been released from their roles in another part of the organisation to provide "administrative support on an interim basis" to the complaints team. ”This is standard procedure to reallocate resources from one part of the organisation when another part of the party comes under strain and requires additional staff support," the source said. "Ensuring complaints on anti-Semitism are processed quickly is an absolute priority for the party which is why these additional resources have been reallocated." A meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party was held by general secretary Jennie Formby, who is in charge of the complaints process and who clashed publicly at the weekend with deputy leader Tom Watson over the way the issue of anti-Semitism was being dealt with.

Ms Riley who campaigns against anti-semitism shared a screengrab of an Owen Jones tweet