THE Labour Party is taking legal action against a renegade former employee, who it accuses of leaking a “substantial volume” of confidential information to media outlets including the Mail.

The move will be welcomed by loyal party members who are fed up with insider leaks and comes as a reactionary smear campaign seems set to intensify on Wednesday night with the inflammatory BBC Panorama show “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?”.

A Labour spokesman has warned that Panorama interviewed “disaffected former officials including those who have always opposed Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, worked to actively undermine it, and have both personal and political axes to grind.”