JEREMY CORBYN lost a bid today to force the disclosure of Labour documents ahead of his forthcoming High Court challenge to his suspension from the parliamentary party.

The former leader had applied for a “pre-action disclosure” ahead of potential legal action against Labour general secretary David Evans in order win the documents’ release.

The Islington North MP’s legal team sought the documents in the belief that they could prove that a deal had been agreed on his readmission to the party, before his successor Sir Keir Starmer refused to restore the parliamentary whip to him.