LABOUR has formally reported figures in Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign team to the Information Commissioner following a suspected attempt to hack the party’s membership database.

The Star understands that two team members have been accused of trying to gain information from Labour’s database of 550,000 people to help map out and target party members who could be potentially sympathetic to Mr Starmer’s candidacy.

Mr Starmer and his campaign have disputed the claims, and said that while his team members were investigating ways to breach the database in order to strengthen the party, they had no intention of ever using the data.